I'm a developer specialising in Microsoft Office (mainly Access - pause while all readers make the sign of the cross and consume large quantities of garlic...).
I'm currently endeavouring to build a small Access application which - among other things - will allow the user to find any occurrence of a word of their choice in approx. 50 multipage PDF documents, displaying the results in the right-hand pane as if they'd carried out the search from Acrobat, but by initiating the process from within the Microsoft Access application. This application also has other search facilities which don't involve Acrobat, plus the ability to find a specific indexed article from the database and open it automatically in Acrobat from the database application [this last bit works perfectly!]. It will all be programmed with VBA.
Your help will be greatly appreciated!
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Somthing else you could try is building an Acrobat index file (also called a catalog file) that covers all of the documents and then parse the index file. That way you don't have to open Acrobat at all, which for your docs would probably be very slow. I don't know if the index format is published.
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