Standalone Advanced Search for Acrobat

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The Advanced search of multiple indexes is one of the great selling points for documents reated with Acrobat. In order to attract more customers, it would be VERY useful to have a standalone search capability which I would describe as follows: I post the index directory, .idx and .pdx files on my website. I have a webpage with the search set up with the selected indexes. The prospective user puts in his own search terms and is given (from the on line material) the file names and number of entries that pertain to his search. Obviously, without the actual text files being on-line, he cannot examine the specific entries, but he will know whether or not what he is searching for can be found in the documents covered by the search.

Has anyone done this or can it be set up?

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Files on web sites (like HTML files) are usually indexed by either (or both of) external search engines or software on the server. External search engines like Google.  Software like Microsoft's indexing built into IIS. Any decent search engine these days also handles PDF. So you need to be working to get decent indexing of your web site as a whole, including PDF. Indexing material that isn't there, however, isn't a feature I've heard of.

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