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dtSearch allows you to search on keywords in a pdf. It also supplies customisable search templates, so it is possible that you could configure the template so that it only searches on the keywords. Regards Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Comeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:45 PM Subject: [PDF] searching for key words in pdfs on a webpage > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Greetings, an Adobe tech suggested I post my question to this group. > > I am the publisher of a monthly journal for parent educators. We have > recently added an online version of our journal, where the various > sections of the journal are each on a separate web page, but the > articles themselves listed on the web pages are in PDF format. Each web > page has 10-20 links to PDF articles on it, so we can't just add key > word tags to the web page. It needs to find specific PDF files. > > We would like our users to be able to do a "key word search" of the > entire web folder of PDFs (on multiple web pages, but with more than one > PDF on a web page), via the key words (and also by author name) to each > PDF, (we would add the key words and, author name: File/Document > Properties). Thus, after a search, a typical search results report comes > up with links back to the PDFs that have those key words (or author > name). > > The HTML resource people I have talked to so far say they don't know if > the document property info in a PDF is in a readable format for a > web-based search or how to create such a search, but no one has said > they know for sure you CAN'T do this. > > Has anyone done this? Is there script etc. already created that will do > this type of search? > > Thank you for your help. > Joan Comeau > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
