Acrobat 8 Pro-how do I search 1000's of pdf's & yellow highlight all occurrences of 12 words/phrases

my computer: windows xp pro svc pack 3, dual processor, 2 gig ram
software: Adobe Acrobat8 Pro. Problem: I have 8,000 1-2 page pdf's in (1) directory, that are all located within 5,000 sub-directories. All were converted by Acrobat fm *.txt docs in the same directories, so all are ocr text searchable, but the time to search all docs and manually highlight each (frequent) occurrence in thousands of docs, then repeat the process for the next 11 words/phrases will take forever.
If anyone knows how to batch process search for multiple words/phrases AND have Acrobat automatically highlight and index each occurrence, that would be awesome and greatly appreciated.
desones

Hi David, I've developed a script that does this (well, it does it for a single document, but can easily be used for multiple ones using a batch process, and the dialog boxes can be replaced with a pre-defined piece of text).
See here for some more info: http://try67.blogspot.com/2008/11/acrobat-highlight-all-instances-of.html
and contact me by email to discuss it further.

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