Re: Indexing and searching a webpage of PDFs?

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

That I do not know.

And it would take quite a while to learn this. (For example, the site
developerâto whom all defer such questionsâdoesn't know what a XSS attack
is.)

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> What is the web page hosted on?
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > I belong to an association that publishes a quarterly newsletter. Present
> > and past issues are available as PDFs on a certain members-only page.
> >
> > There is no search function on that page, nor is an index provided.
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to add a search function that could comb through the
> > PDFs, as it they were regular HTML pages?
> >
> > 2) Or might there be a nifty tool that I could aim at that page and build
> > an index? Or maybe download the PDFs and index them locally using some
> > nifty tool?
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