Windows Text Search Tool Including PDFs

Question

Looking for recommendations for tool/process to search through roughly 2TBs of data looking for certain phrases. This would include office docs, .txt, and PDFs.

I see a lot of tools out there for this, but not seeing many that can do PDFs.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server-express.aspx

"The following connectors come out of the box in Search Server 2010 Express and SharePoint Server 2010:

• SharePoint sites
• Windows file shares
• Exchange public folders
• Lotus Notes
• Web sites
• IFilters for additional repositories
• Structured content in databases
• Federation object model

" - http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/searchserverexpress/en/us/compare.aspx

PDF and other iFilters are available.

Read this as well which discusses some limitations.