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How to access search results in Acrobat 9 from the JavaScript Console

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2011-11-02 10:44:10
AHoffman
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 6
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I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro or Acrobat 6.0 Pro, depending on which computer I'm on, and I'm running searches of 200 keywords through several hundred indexes/documents.
 
I need to access the search results from this from the JavaScript Console, ideally in order to then dump the locations of each instance of the keywords (page numbers and pdf filepaths) into an Excel spreadsheet.
 
Does anyone know how I would go about this?
  

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2011-11-03 02:52:39
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Accepted Answer
JS has no access to these results. It can only initiate a search.

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2011-11-03 07:25:38
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AHoffman
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 6
Gotcha, thanks for letting me know--that's a really irritating phenomenon.
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