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Hello, I'm building a website where people can look at PDFs for a library. It will be exactly like this http://173.12.11.248/
What I'm stuck on is building the search page. http://173.12.11.248/search.htm
I used the tutorial on Adobe on building a search and results page and I have a database recordset, but how do i enter in MYSQL the PDFs so that they will be searched through.
I tried having the PDF row be a TEXT field with the link to the PDF on the site, but that didn't work.
Any ideas?

It's not clear to me what you are asking. It sounds as if you have built a page that searches a database, but what you need is to search file contents. The link you provided is using ASP so it's going to be difficult to do a pdf file search with that. If you were using PHP you could use the pdfsearch.php class. But that's going to be extemely slow to search many documents. You're better off using an indexing search engine like zoom :www.wrensoft.com/zoom

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