Sorry to ask such a simple question, but why don't you use the Very Extensive text searching facilities "built into" Acrobat?
Acrobat can do full text searching over single files or large indexs of
files.
To convert the PDF to Director or XML would be a complete waste of time.
Download a demo copy of Acrobat ( not the reader but the full version)
and take a look at it's capabilities.
Thnks for the info. On previous occasions I have used adobe catalog. But,
this time round, my clients is insisting on specific ways to search, rank
the search results, and display the search results. I fully understand that
this would involve duplicating the content 100%, but I don't see any other
way. Any thoughts will be really helpful.
Charge them an insane amount of money, and demand half up front before you start.
Really.
If you must do it as they insist, then set the bill at a price that will cover twice your longest estimate of development time, plus testing, and don't deliver the beta until they've paid half that.
Because they will either pull out right away, or get skittish towards the end and decide they "want to put it on hold" for a while. In the first case you're immediately free to pursue other deals. In the latter (more likely) scenario, since you got half up front anyway, your time hasn't been entirely wasted.
Worried about losing the client? Don't. There are others to be had, and you don't need to spend 80+ hour weeks developing something at a slave's wage that will ultimately be rejected. Clients don't usually care about your welfare; they're greedy and prefer to keep all the money to themselves. So you have to insist that your welfare is part of any business deal you forge. If you don't have the brass to do that you'll end up working for starvation fees, burned out and bitterly resentful.
Better to lose a client than to lose your stomach lining, your head or your heart.
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