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How to Search PDF

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  11 months ago

  by victor64

  victor charles

  Newark, United States

  Joined 11 months ago
  Hello, I need some help on how to open a folder with multiple PDFs, search of text entered in a text box, list the PDF files which contains the text in a list box and click on the filename from the listbox to open the PDF. Can you please help get get startted with sample codes or links related to this topic. Thanks in advance. Victor
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  11 months ago

  by konikula

  Matej Kasper

  Trutnov, Czech Republic

  Joined 3 years ago
  All of what you need is pretty easy, but searching text in PDF could turn to impossible... at least without payed library which can do that...
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  11 months ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 8 years ago
  Hi Victor, You can use the free, open source, [iTextSharp library](http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/) which allows you to create PDFs, and also read them! There's an article here describing how to extract text from a PDF using this library - that should be fairly easily turned into a search algorithm. If you're talking a huge collection of PDFs, then it's worth looking at[ Lucene.NET](http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/) to perform the searching. Hope that helps
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