[Pro] Simple Search Action & PDFs

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Query: Does the Freeway Simple Search Action index/find search words in PDF documents?

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No. PDFs are binary files, and the “text” inside them is rarely readable by anything except a PDF reader application.

I have built search engines that index PDFs alongside HTML pages (and other file types) and present a single return interface. It’s non-trivial, and involves extracting the text from the files using a command-line tool, storing it in the database, and then using that as the corpus for the actual search.

Walter

On Feb 14, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Al Burke email@hidden wrote:

Query: Does the Freeway Simple Search Action index/find search words in PDF documents?

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Thanks, Walter. It is as I suspected.

Al

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