asked on Merging 10,000 PDF's into ONE searchable file
This is a one off exercise:
I have 10,000 pdf's in about 500 folders.
The pdf's are called a persons name and have a photo of the person in the pdf.
Example:
johnsmith.pdf has a picture of John Smith !
I want to start at a high level folder and drill down into all lower folders looking for pdf's.
REQUIREMENT: One large PDF containing all the smaller ones.
Also, I need to be able to search the PDF and find the photo of "John Smith" or whoever.
I have 10,000 pdf's in about 500 folders.
The pdf's are called a persons name and have a photo of the person in the pdf.
Example:
johnsmith.pdf has a picture of John Smith !
I want to start at a high level folder and drill down into all lower folders looking for pdf's.
REQUIREMENT: One large PDF containing all the smaller ones.
Also, I need to be able to search the PDF and find the photo of "John Smith" or whoever.
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Joe Winograd
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The approach documented in post #a42049716 will work well. In fact, I have working subroutines of all the components described in the post. It would be a matter of combining them into a single program and, of course, testing it thoroughly. It would not be trivial, especially to make sure that it is able to handle error conditions when processing 10,000 PDFs in 500 folders. This is why I mentioned a Gig if the asker does not have the expertise to write the program. But it is very doable using the roadmap in my post.