I have 5000 pdfs out of which 500 pdfs are important, rest are useless. There is one word present in each 500 file that is not present in other 4500 files. I did multiple file search and came to know that I cannot select the 500 pdfs from the search result in Adobe Reader. Is there any other way to select multiple PDF files that contain a particular word?
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You have three main options
Option one:
Get your 5000 pdfs. Make 10 folders of 500. Run 10 individual searches.
Option two:
Windows search (definitely 10, not sure on others but worth a shot) works through PDF files. Just go to your folder, type in your keyword, all the relevant files should be returned.
Option three:
Libraries like iTextSharp would allow you to get the text from a document in something like C#. You can loop through all the documents and do what you need with them, assuming you are able to use C#.
Apparently FoxIt reader gives a similar search through folder function - I don't know if this is limited to 500 also though.
Jonno
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