I have a Java CFX tag up at OpenXCF
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxcf) that allows you to turn a PDF into
a string. Once you have it as a string you can do a whole bunch of things
with it for searching purposes including feeding it to Lucene.

-Matt

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Burns, John D
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Search PDFs?
>
> I'm looking for some way to create a search that will allow me to search
> the contents of PDF files (much like how google does).  The majority of
> this programming and the search feature is going to be built in java
> because of our need to access an XML Database (Tamino) so we'd like to
> find some kind of open source code or some documentation on creating a
> search in JAVA to search the contents of PDF files.  Anyone have
> experience with something like this or can point me in the right
> direction? Thanks!
>
> John Burns
>
>
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