Acrobat catalog plugin and visual studio

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August 12, 2020
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Hi, I have been trying to write an app that will allow a PDF(s) file to be indexed (create a pdx file set). SO this user does not have to open acrobat to create the full text catalog manually. After much research and reading and dead ends I believe I have finally come up with a plan of action. Acrobat DC Pro comes with a "catalog" plugin that appears to be able to create a PDX file. It seems the best method for me to access this catalog plugin (API?) is to write a C++ application to call the catalog functions. I have not developed in C++ for a while but I used to. I downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio to create my app.Now I have hit a deadend again. Trying to find some example of using Visual Studio to access the acrobat plugin but getting nowhere. I have been through the SDK but can't seem to make any head way. Any example of calling any of the acrobat plugins would be helpful - like the search plugin. Thanks for any advice.

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You won't find info because there is no programming interface to this Acrobat function, so far as I know. Just because Acrobat can do it, doesn't mean you can automate it.

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JoePIFSAuthor

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Thanks for replying. So Berndt has told me that I can not create an outside app to call the acrobat catalog plugins functions. I have seen other documents in the acrobat sdk, "developing acrobat applications using java script", that reference "search", "catalog" and "index" objects which seem to create PDX file sets. Can I create an app using javascript, outside of the UI, that uses these objects to create a PDX file? I do apologize if these questions seem silly but I am new to this acorbat environment and honestly some of the documentation/information seems misleading. I was hopng to initially avoid javascript but if that is the only way then so be it. Or it would be good to have someone tell me that the only way to create a PDX file set is in the acrobat UI. Thanks, Joe

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

With the Javascript index object you can build the index, but you can't create a new index.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

There doesn't exists a public API for this plugin.

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JoePIFSAuthor

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Hi Bernd, thanks for replying. As usual I am confused by your answer. I have purchased Acrobat PRO DC - doesn't that give me access to the catalog plug in?

Thanks again, Joe

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can create a pdx file in the UI of Acrobat. Acrobat uses the catalog plugin for this.

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