• have you considered adding a full text index on the pdfs themselves? you'd obviously need to modify HOW you search after you have that in place.

    first example i found when searching for SQL server full text index pdfs

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7690921/sql-server-pdf-full-text-search-not-working-on-filestream-pdf-file

    Lowell


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