How do I search for a string within multiple pdf files?
Do you have to automate that, or would it be possible to do this manually? You can create an index over all your PDF files in a certain directory with Acrobat. Once you’ve done that, Acrobat will find all occurrences of your string in all files and will display them in a list. This list is however not available to other programs. Adobe makes available a filter that you can use so that Microsoft’s IIE server can index your PDFs: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 This way, you only have to deal with the web server’s interface, and do not have to search the PDFs directly. Just take a look at the size of the plug-in API documentation (several thousand pages) – if you’ve never written a plug-in before, that should be your last resort.
