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This might not fit your need exactly, but a Google Custom Search ( http://www.google.com/cse/) should do the job. You can have the Custom Search only index a given directory, or only PDFs, whichever is more useful. Jason On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > My institution is looking for ways to provide search across PDFs through > our website. Specifically, PDFs linked from finding aids. Ideally searching > within a collection's PDFs or possibly across all PDFs linked from all > finding aids. > > We do not have a CMS or a digital repository. A digital repository is on > the horizon, but it's a ways out and we need to offer the search sooner. > I've looked into Swish-e but haven't had much luck getting anything off the > ground. > > One way we know we can do this through our discovery layer VuFind, using > it's ability to full-text index a website based on a sitemap (which would > includes PDFs linked from finding aids). Facets could be created for > collections, and we may be able to create a search box on the finding aid > nav that searches specifically that collection. > > But, I'm not sure how scalable that solution is. The indexing agent cannot > discern when a page was updated, so it has to re-scrape, > everything, every-night. The impetus collection is going to have about over > 1000 PDFs. And that's to start. Creating the index will start to take a > long, long time. > > Does anyone have any ideas or know of any useful tools for this project? > Doesn't have to be perfect, quick and dirty may work. (The OCR's dirty > anyway :-) > > Thanks, > Nathan >