Cap'n Jack
Final Approach
I have a collection of research papers all in PDF (several hundred)- the authors for each paper are listed in the PDF. I have an Excel file of people who received research grants (~100-150 people).
I want to see which papers were authored by people in my list.
Tools available to me:
Windows XP Pro
Adobe reader 6
MS Excel 2002, MS Word 2002
I can install Visual Studio 6, or download Visual Basic or Visual C++ Express (whatever the current version is)
The task is to read the last name, search the PDFs, and put the file name in my excel file with the name.
The brute force method is to copy the last name and have Adobe search through the files using manual copying into the acrobat search dialog.
Is there a way to do it programmatically? The number of hits would be low enough that I can live with false positives, so just ientifying the files with that name in it is good enough.
Thanks much!
-->Jack
I want to see which papers were authored by people in my list.
Tools available to me:
Windows XP Pro
Adobe reader 6
MS Excel 2002, MS Word 2002
I can install Visual Studio 6, or download Visual Basic or Visual C++ Express (whatever the current version is)
The task is to read the last name, search the PDFs, and put the file name in my excel file with the name.
The brute force method is to copy the last name and have Adobe search through the files using manual copying into the acrobat search dialog.
Is there a way to do it programmatically? The number of hits would be low enough that I can live with false positives, so just ientifying the files with that name in it is good enough.
Thanks much!
-->Jack