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Mark,
You wrote:
As far as I can tell Google's bots have no way to read any of the info in the 'Document Properties' section. So as well Keywords, the Title, Author and Subject don�t get 'scanned' for use in the google data base. It quite hard to prove this as for the life of me I cant find any PDF's that Google 'knows' about that has the Keyword section filled out!. I have proved with one PDF I found that Google does not look at the Title or Author though.
Exceptions may exist, but Google *does* index PDF titles, and even displays these in its search results.
See http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html -- items from November 2003, September 2003 and December 2002 for examples and more info.
In my web site I have a sample PDF which has a specific phrase only in the DocInfo title (and not in the page contents), and it is retrieved by Google when searching for that phrase.
Shlomo Perets
MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker, InDesign, Acrobat training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers FrameMaker-to-PDF Assistants: Form, Navigation, Presentation, Defaults
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