Create PDF from Search results...

Hello all.
I am currently creating PDF's of all my company websites. We are going to uses these PDFs as sources of information.
Basically, We are going to use Acrobats search functionality to search across a large number of PDFs of the websites. Lets say I search for "Cancer"
The search results come back with the PDF document title link and link to the exact page were the words Cancer is found.
What I would like to do it to be able to create one PDF based on all the pages located in the search results.
Is it possible to automate this process without having to physically open every page and extract it?
Cheers
John

Hi,
You can use Adobe Services to create PDF using Webdynpro.
You can display your search results from SAP R/3 in a PDF file.
Check out this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1a/ff773f12f14a18e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Thanks
Senthil
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