If you really have the need then check out http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/fa82.htm Adobe have an IFilter module for the Windows NT 4 Server/ 2000 Server /XP Index Server component. Once you have it installed just head off to be and hope... Alan Melia Melmac Solutions Ltd. http://www.melmac.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan-erik Svderholm (QAC)" To: Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]: how to index pdf files? > I find it far more easier to let the *producers* take > care of the cataloging and indexing of the PDF's ! > > With 70.000 PDF's how do you know that you are actualy > looking at the most reasent version each time you need > it ? Without looking it up at the producers site anyway ? > > If you actualy look at 10 PDF's a day, 365 days/year, you'll > need close to 20 years to read them all. I'll bett that at > least *some* of the PDF's will be outdated by then :-) > > And about the Microchip CD's, don't they have some kind of > search tool to read them ? Can't that tool be copied to > your harddisk together with the PDF's ? > > Jan-Erik. > > > Jochen Feldhaar wrote: > > I have about 70000 PDFs on my PC (23GBytes, yeah!),... > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics