Re: *.pdf Documents Security

Posted by Mike On 2010/12/27 18:55:29

If you make a PDF with the "ocr" box checked (adobe) or whatever pdf making software you're using it will TRY to make a text index that is searchable inside the file. I say try because sometimes it has trouble converting from an image type text (how they are usually) to OCR.

Then, you can use different PDF compatible indexing or database software to search for them. (It will read inside them and build an index so you can get instant search results) Web site versions are usually pretty pricey.

Google desktop will read inside a handful of different formats including PDF, and if you downloaded all the PDF's off the website (or if bigkev could easily make a CD containing them all for a decent price for his time, would EASILY be worth $100-$200 if you had to have them searchable) and IF they're OCR encoded PDFs then google desktop will index them on your PC.