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Subject:Re: Searching Text in Multiple PDF Files.. From:"Radwa Darwish" <radwa -dot- darwish -at- microtech -dot- com -dot- eg> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 May 2004 15:24:20 +0200
I am on Win XP and the search facility available doesn't support text search
for PDF files, I tried :(. YMMV
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayur Polepalli
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: Radwa Darwish
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Searching Text in Multiple PDF Files..
Hi Radwa,
Why do you want to download a tool? Can't you use the Windows search
facility by putting the search string in the Containing text text box?
Unless you use Linux.
Cheers,
Mayur
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