Text search within pdf

has anyone found a way/app that lets you do text search within a pdf?
thanks.

You should be able - when I have a PDF open in Safari, then the search field at the top right of Safari will search within the PDF. Whether it works with all PDF documents I don't know.

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Extension nvarchar(10)
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Description nvarchar(1000)
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TABLE dbo.DocumentFilesTest
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DF_DocumentFilesTest_AddDate
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FOR AddDate
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sp_fulltext_database
'enable'
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NOT EXISTS
(SELECT
TOP 1 1 FROM sys.fulltext_catalogs
WHERE name
= 'Ducuments_Catalog_test')
BEGIN
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'Ducuments_Catalog_test',
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from sys.indexes
i
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t on
i.object_id
= t.object_id
WHERE t.Name
= 'DocumentFilesTest'
AND i.type_desc
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sp_fulltext_table
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sp_fulltext_table
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ON [dbo].[DocumentFilesTest]
ENABLE
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FULLTEXT INDEX
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SET CHANGE_TRACKING
= AUTO
ALTER
FULLTEXT CATALOG
Ducuments_Catalog_test REBUILD
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Name,
FileSource)
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'pdf'
'BOL12006553.pdf'
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OPENROWSET(BULK
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SINGLE_BLOB)
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INSERT
INTO DocumentFilesTest(Extension,
Name,
FileSource)
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'docx'
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OPENROWSET(BULK
'd:\SQL\PDFBlob\test.docx',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS Document;
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FROM dbo.DocumentFilesTest
d WHERE
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d.*
FROM dbo.DocumentFilesTest
d WHERE
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NULL   [BINARY Value] [Binary Value]
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Thanks,
Vel
Vel Thavasi

Hello,
Did you check the fulltext log files for more details about the errors. If the filter isn’t working, there should be errors in the error log file.
The following thread is about similar issue, please refer to:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sqlserver/en-US/69535dbc-c7ef-402d-a347-d3d3e4860d72/sql-server-2008-64bit-fulltext-indexing-pdf-not-working-cant-find-ifilter
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