Re: I'm looking for a search engine for a text-oriented CD I want to publish

I did some research on this point a little while ago and concluded that 
there is nothing suitable on the market right now. It used to be that 
AltaVista personal, or whatever it was called, would do the trick quite 
nicely. 

My proposed solution would be to include evaluation versions of 
dtSearch and X1, and the freeware Google Desktop, and encourage the 
users to copy the files to the hard drive if either of the latter are 
used, since only dtSearch can handle files on CD media. Forty files is 
not all that much volume. 

I would also convert the WP files to PDF in the interest of wider 
access. 


--- In [email protected], "A.J. Levy" <ajlevy@c...> wrote:
> I publish a newsletter for Louisiana lawyers and have over five years 
> of past issues that I would like to put on a CD and sell.
> 
> The newsletters are in WordPerfect format and there are about 40
> files 
> (one for each issue) that total about 10 mb that I want to include in 
> the CD. 
> 
> I am looking for a search engine that non-techie lawyers can use to 
> search the past issues. I will probably be selling the CD compilation 
> for between $99 and $135, so the engine can not be too expensive. I 
> have looked at Acrobat, but the interface is not great if I want to 
> search over 40 files.
> 
> Has anyone had any experience (good or bad) with document search 
> engines for CDs? Does anyone have any recommendation, comments, or 
> suggestions?




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