Hi. I need some help. I have a bunch of PDF files that I want to publish online. I already made a framed site where you can browse folders and the fles/other folders within them. I would also like to make it searchable. But i don't want to have to use PHP or SQL. How can I go about doing this? I know i can create a java database, but I was wondering if there is a program that will index the pdf files into a java database for free. Thanks for the help!<!--content-->Once you've read this article (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html</a><!-- m -->) about why you shouldn't use PDFs, you could check out Google WebSearch (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html">http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html</a><!-- m -->).<br />
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Adam<!--content-->The reason I use PDFs is becuase I use a digital sender that converts large documents, I'm talking hundreds of pages of either color or full text. And totaling thousands of documents. We're converting everything from paper to digital and adobe seems to be the easiest way. Thanks for the help!<!--content-->Is there a way I could do this free however?<!--content-->Originally posted by dpool2002 <br />
Is there a way I could do this free however? Of fast, cheap and good you can have any two. The good and cheap, and the overall best way to go, is to convert by hand all of your documents into accessible XHTML 1.0 Strict. Then you use XSLT-FO and the open source processor FOP (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/">http://xml.apache.org/fop/</a><!-- m -->) to convert the pages to PDF.<!--content-->
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Adam<!--content-->The reason I use PDFs is becuase I use a digital sender that converts large documents, I'm talking hundreds of pages of either color or full text. And totaling thousands of documents. We're converting everything from paper to digital and adobe seems to be the easiest way. Thanks for the help!<!--content-->Is there a way I could do this free however?<!--content-->Originally posted by dpool2002 <br />
Is there a way I could do this free however? Of fast, cheap and good you can have any two. The good and cheap, and the overall best way to go, is to convert by hand all of your documents into accessible XHTML 1.0 Strict. Then you use XSLT-FO and the open source processor FOP (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/">http://xml.apache.org/fop/</a><!-- m -->) to convert the pages to PDF.<!--content-->