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Introduction
Search and Index Essentials
This chapter will enable you to customize and extend searching operations for PDF
document content and metadata, as well as indexing operations. The principal Acrobat
JavaScript objects used in searching and indexing are the
search
,
catalog
, and
index
objects. You will learn how to use these objects to accomplish the goals listed below.
Chapter Goals
At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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Use Acrobat JavaScript to search for text in one or more PDF documents.
Customize searching to perform advanced queries.
Customize indexing of PDF documents.
Use JavaScript to read and search XMP metadata.
Contents
Topics
Searching for Text in PDF Documents
Indexing Multiple PDF Documents
Searching Metadata
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