I am starting to use Acrobat.com to store a collection of pdf files. I am a Doctor and I am using it to store reference articles, i.e. Journal reprints etc. My plan is to have this as an on-line reference source where I can gather hundreds if not thousands of pdf documents over the years but specifically useful to my needs.
My limitation I am hitting with a few dozen files is where have I hidden it and how do I find the file? There is a search tool that looks at the titles of the contained documents but it does not appear to look at any of the metadata of the files {e.g. Keywords}. This limits the usefulness by me having to put in long descriptive names in the file titles, which looks weird and quickly becomes unwieldy.
Is there any thought to add the metadata such as keywords to the search algorithm? That way, it will make the whole process that much more useful. I could add lots of useful keywords to each document and the search algorithm would find them when I need to look them up. It would mean I can precisely control the search logic and avoid the often frustrating problems with search algorithms that return a whole lot of irrelevant garbage and hide the gems in the rubbish.
What should not be done however is to include searching the document. This will overwhelm the search tool and also return so much irrelevant garbage to make the process worthless.
I would be interested in your feedback.
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