how to implement search functionality in scanned pdf files archive?

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'tag' means tagging certain content (in OCR or else) in PDF file to access that certain content.
I have large archive of scanned PDF so I want to implement search functionality If any other way is possible to implement search functionality please give solution to handle above problem.

Posted 10-Aug-11 20:07pm

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2011-08-10T20:10:00

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The only way to search PDFs of scans, is to run OCR on them, as you said. Then you can store their text against the PDF file, and search that. Otherwise, you have no hope.

Posted 10-Aug-11 20:10pm

Christian Graus