custom search with javascript?

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October 19, 2017
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Hi I want to do a search in a pdf file, I want to look for a name and then to perform the search I pull an ordered list of all the times that name appears. I did it with advanced search but the list is very confusing ... is there any code to do this?

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try67

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Yes, but if the name is more than one word long it gets complicated.

Basically, you would need to create a loop over all the words in all the pages of the file, using the getPageNthWord method of the Document object, searching for the word(s) you're interested in. Also, this is quite a memory-intensive process and the application tends to choke if your file is very long.

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DEMAuthor

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ok thanks a lot and can you generate a custom dialog box to perform a search? where say say the name and name and there the user put the name you want to search and get the reusltado in a list?

try67

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It's possible, but quite complicated to implement.

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