[xep-support] Re: Creating embedded index in PDF for faster searching?

[Mark Giffin]

I don't think Word can do this. Adobe Acrobat Professional can do this 
and I agree, the index it produces is vastly faster, and it will also 
index a whole bunch of separate PDF files in one index. It's an old 
feature (used to be called "Catalog") that Adobe doesn't seem to talk 
about anymore. If you want to automate it you might look at Adobe 
ExtendScript for Acrobat. ExtendScript is Adobe's JavaScript-based 
scripting language for products like Photoshop, FrameMaker etc. but I 
don't know if Acrobat supports it. But if it does you could probably 
write a small script to kick off this Catalog indexing, and if you're 
really lucky there may be a way to kick it off from the command line, so 
you could incorporate it into your PDF build process.

Mark Giffin
http://markgiffin.com/

On 4/30/14 5:13 PM, David Clunie wrote:
> That's a bit disappointing. If Word can do it, it would be nice
> if RenderX could too (as a post-processing step if necessary),
> since doing it manually in Acrobat afterwards is painful, and
> I couldn't find a command line tool to do it.
>
> David
>
> On 4/20/14 5:45 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>> This is not supported by RenderX and there are no plans to add it. 
>> This is
>> an operation best performed after the entire document is created and not
>> "as" it is being created.
>>
>>
>> Kevin Brown
>> (650) 327-1000 Direct
>> (650) 328-8008 Fax
>> (925) 395-1772 Mobile
>> skype:kbrown01
>> kevin at renderx.com
>> sales at renderx.com
>> http://www.renderx.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xep-support-bounces at renderx.com
>> [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of David Clunie
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:10 AM
>> To: xep-support at renderx.com
>> Subject: [xep-support] Creating embedded index in PDF for faster 
>> searching?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am creating quite large PDF files that users frequently search 
>> within, and
>> the searches are relatively slow.
>>
>> I am using the ENABLE_ACCESSIBILITY in xep.xml to created tagged PDF.
>>
>> If I load these into Acrobat and then use Advanced > Document 
>> Processing >
>> Manage Embedded Index > Create Index, then the result is a MUCH faster
>> search.
>>
>> However, I would rather generate these in the pipeline with XEP (or an
>> additional pass with some other command line tool if anyone knows of 
>> one).
>>
>> I couldn't find anything in the manual about this, or any obvious 
>> option.
>>
>> David


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