Searching text in PDF

I believe that I have heard that in GW 8 it will be possible to search text in PDF documents.
I have tried it, but it doesn't work.
Is there a way to make it work in GW 8?
Thanks,
Tomislav

Dave Parkes wrote:
> I don't know enough about the Linux setup to know precisely what is called
> on that OS.
It's still called the document conversation agent on Linux. I would set off
an indexing run to see if it kicks it all off properly. My PDFs have been
indexing here for a good long time :)
Danita
Time to upgrade to GW8!
http://www.caledonia.net/gw8upg.html

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