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Old 05-06-2008, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by jerry View Post
Does anyone know a way to search through a disk/folder full of PDF's for a specific phrase, without having to open up each individual one? If so, I can search through my CDROM with Spurgeon's sermons and books quickly. Otherwise it would take me quite a while to do so.

Unfortunately you'd probably have to use some kind of document imaging system to handle that, which would be expensive. (Or you could use Steve's suggestion and search the file data itself, though I don't know how well that works for compressed PDFs.) You've given me an idea. SwordSearcher could be extended to index and search PDF files... Something else for the to-do list.