Searchable Text in SWF file

I am creating an interactive document in InDesign and exporting it as a SWF file. I would like the text in the SWF file to be searchable text. Do I need to set up the document a certain way to achieve this? Can I create a search button within InDesign that will allow this to happen? Is there an add-on you can use to have the search option available within the flash player? I would greatly appreciate any knowledge and help regarding this issue. Thanks!

No, there´s no such feature in InDesign. Actually the text InDesign exports, if use SWF as a format, is quite a mess. Words are splitted to separate characters and it´s not even closely in searchable form.
3rd party finalizing tool for SWF files exported from InDesign - eDocker - can however create a simple keyword search for you document. Search is still in beta feature but it works if you just need to have a textfield where end-user can write a word or phrase to search for. After clicking search button, he/she will receive a list of search results, which are also links pointing to those pages where actual results are.
Check for instance this link:
http://www.nypa.gov/AR09/annualReport09.html
Try word empire and you will get few results to pages where that word can be found.....
You will find eDocker here>>

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