IBM has a free Adobe plugin that provides Bookie-like searches of PDF files, provided that the proper indexes have been created by the PDF publisher.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27018852 In my experience, not all IBM manuals have been indexed. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:10, Don Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Works great, but it is slow when there are many/large PDFs in the > directory. > Is there some way to create a search index? > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Barry Merrill > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 4:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents??? > > You can search all pdf documents in a directory; > open any pdf document and then use CTRL-SHIFT-F > to open the SEARCH WINDOW that lets you select > the directory and search all pdf's in that directory. > > Barry Merrill > > > Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD > President-Programmer > [email protected] > Merrill Consultants > MXG Software > 10717 Cromwell Drive > Dallas TX 75229 > 214 351 1966 tel > 214 350 3694 fax > www.mxg.com > > technical: [email protected] > admin: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
