: Keywording PDF's on a website and searching for PDFs internally by using a search engine So, I have been tasked to do several things on my work experience. There are currently PDFs uploaded

@Smith883

Google also lets you create a search for a singe website only, you can create a hyperlink (link) in a document which would bring up a search, eg
www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:stackexchange.com+filetype:pdf&lr=&hl=en&as_qdr=all

Google also provide a Custom Search Engine that involves a small amount of code being added to the company website it's pretty simple to do.

This brings up the Advanced Search box in google with the website already set to stackexchange.com and the type of file set to pdf. Adobe.com may also provide more information since they are the creators of Adobe Acrobat which creates pdf files. In Adobe Acrobat - full version not the reader - you can set the properties and keywords for each file. Other PDF writers should let you do the same.

If the PDFs are scanned images of type writer written documents (or obvious photos of printouts) rather than editable text you can use the Optical Characte Recognition (OCR) scan in the software to get the text electronically recognized ready for searching.

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@Pierce454

If your starting from the ground up, Wordpress has lots of plugins available that will get you up and running quick...heres one for PDF search searchwp.com

While i have not used this plugin it seems to have the functionality you want.

If you are new to wordpress you got a little bit of a learning curve ahead, but there are plenty of resources out there and some great themes available from places like themeforest.net.

Hope that helps;)

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