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Prabakaran26636537hn0c
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October 17, 2022
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Text search from multipage pdf in a folder and extract file name and page number?

  • October 17, 2022
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CONDITION:

I have 100s of pdf files stored in a folder, each pdf contains 100 to 200 pages.

 

WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO:

I want to search a specific word from those pdf files,  example i like to search a  word called "Honesty".

 

WHAT IS THE RESULT I EXPECT

I want to know, in which pdf files and the page number of the file, does this word "Honesty" exists

 

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Raymond Camden
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Raymond CamdenCommunity Manager
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October 17, 2022

Are you asking if this is possible? Sure - you can use Extract to get the text, and what page # stuff is on, but we don't provide a search engine. You would need to do that yourself. The only concern is that we do cap out the max size you can run the Extract API with - 200 pages. You sound like you'll be inside the limit though.

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Prabakaran26636537hn0cAuthor
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October 18, 2022

Thanks Camden, i also like to know the pdf file name along with page #, because i am spending time opening each pdf file and manually searching the word.

 

As you suggested, you can give us your solution with Adobe, we can try and opt that.  For search engine, you can suggest a tool or a solution.

Raymond Camden
Community Manager
Raymond CamdenCommunity Manager
Community Manager
October 18, 2022

I've used Algolia (commercial, but with a good free tier) and Lunr (free and open source, but client based, so not good for large datasets unless you use serverless functions).

 

Alogia: https://www.algolia.com/

Lunr: https://lunrjs.com/

 

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