Indexing a lot of text/pdf files

[ice109]

i have about 10gigs of pdfs and other format articles i would like to index so i can search for a word or a phrase in them. anyone know of a program that does this?

 

[las3rjock]

• Spotlight in Mac OS X does this by default.
• Google Desktop does this and is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
• Windows Desktop Search can do this, but you may need to install an IFilter.
• Other desktop search engines may be able to do this as well.