Script to search PDFs and print report as to contents

Question

I would like to create a script to help me with the following task, I have minimal experience, but am willing to invest some time on making this work, I just need some help getting started.
I have several thousand PDF files that are not text-searchable right now. I want to use Acrobat Pro 9 to batch process the files through its OCR utility. I would then like to use a script to search for certain keywords (names and dates) and generate a report that lists where those keywords appear.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
Andy

Answer 1

this piece of script will help you get there:
[code]
set search_for to "part" ---search for this name
set search_here to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder) as string ---- too much to handle
set search_here to "/Users/timmason/Desktop/spotlight scripts/csacsacs/alta__001 copy 2.pdf" ------file to search -not working
set search_here to "/Users/timmason/Desktop/spotlight scripts/csacsacs/" ------folder to search
display dialog searcher(search_for, search_here) ---returns location of doc
on searcher(search_for, search_here)
set the_script to {"mdfind -onlyin '", search_here, "' '", search_for, "'"} as string --converted for vars
set the_text to (do shell script the_script)
set num_records to count of paragraphs in the_text
set x to 0
set all_recs to ""
repeat num_records times
set x to x + 1
set all_recs to all_recs & return & return & paragraph x of the_text
end repeat
return all_recs
end searcher