Keyword research over time
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Hello,
I would like to automate a keyword search task on one or more PDF documents.
The goal would be to detect the presence of one or more keywords in the text of a PDF.
The search tool provided by Adobe only allows searching for one keyword at a time.
It seems possible to automate this task, likely requiring some programming. Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about programming.
Would it be possible to have an Excel macro capable of opening a specified PDF document and searching for a predefined list of keywords, and if so, identifying the keywords found?
Moreover, in a list of PDF documents, could I obtain the names of the PDFs in which the specified keywords appear?
I am thinking of Excel because I have used VBA a few years ago for another application, but other tools could work too.
The simplest to use would be best for non-technical users.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Cécile
I would like to automate a keyword search task on one or more PDF documents.
The goal would be to detect the presence of one or more keywords in the text of a PDF.
The search tool provided by Adobe only allows searching for one keyword at a time.
It seems possible to automate this task, likely requiring some programming. Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about programming.
Would it be possible to have an Excel macro capable of opening a specified PDF document and searching for a predefined list of keywords, and if so, identifying the keywords found?
Moreover, in a list of PDF documents, could I obtain the names of the PDFs in which the specified keywords appear?
I am thinking of Excel because I have used VBA a few years ago for another application, but other tools could work too.
The simplest to use would be best for non-technical users.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Cécile
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Hello,
It seems to me that you are complicating your life by imagining an Excel macro to dig into a PDF.
There’s more to life than just Adobe. Take PDF-XChange for example (free), which has a (very) advanced search function that allows you to search for "all the words" specified. You can even request that they be highlighted, underlined, colored, etc.
https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/bureautique/17241-pdf-xchange-pro/
As for searching through a list of closed PDF documents, you can also do that with the same software, otherwise it’s a job for Windows.
m@rina
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Thank you, I will look at the "search for multiple words" option in the indicated software. This will likely solve my problems.
Thank you
