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How to search inside PDF files.

I have to search inside PDF files for an upcoming (ASP.NET MVC) project in shared hosting environment. What is the best solution? Any third part product?

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Lucene is a popular choice. See Lucene FAQ on searching pdfs.

Alex B  2009-05-11 05:21:16
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Lucene is a good choice - for ASP.NET, using Lucene.NET is the best bet. Lucene is an indexing engine only, meaning you'll have to provide it with the text from the PDF. If you have access to the web server, you can install an IFilter for this (I recommend Foxit's PDF filter). Otherwise you'll have to get hold of some code to use on your website to parse and filter the PDF.

Nick  2009-05-11 10:37:49

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