Searching large PDF files

I have really really big PDF's (over 600mb)
I submit 10,000 paper documents to a service company they churn out 1 gigantic PDF
each original document is a page so there are over 10,000 pages in the PDF document
they provide me CD with the file on it
this file gets copied out onto a shared network drive
So I go to the drive and select the file ( I am not absoulty sure the undercover detials such as when you access a file that is located out on a shared drive.....does the entire file get loaded in my PC's ram? or is it somehow loaded segment by segment? )
anyhow I then use FIND to put a search string in and it ca ntale over 30 min to search the file
anyone have suggestion that I can use to re-engineer this process in order f to be able to search quickly ??
thanks
[email address deleted by host]

There is no way for you to do this in Reader. HOWEVER, if you are going to ask the company to produce the file you can ask them to embed an index so that searching (rather than finding) can be done more quickly.
BTW, the an index file could be created for searching an entire folder of files without the files being combined. The creation of such indices is one of the features of Acrobat. Loading large files unnecessarily is resource and time consuming without being necessary.

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