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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Indexing PDF files 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:47:52 PST."
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:47:52 PST, jeff wrote:

> Hello_I have a pressing need to make a large collection of PDF files
> indexed and word searchable something like Acrobat Catalog does under
> windows.

I think you're going to have to go with something commercial, since PDF
is not a plain text file format, so things like glimpse are going to
choke on it. :-(

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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