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IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe
The IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe may be used to perform advanced full text searches on Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files that have been enabled with the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Index. When installed as a plug-in to either the free Adobe Reader® or the priced Adobe Acrobat®, it provides the following functions, over and above the existing search/find functions natively provided by Adobe:
Searches are linguistic in nature (i.e. morphologically based). For example, a search term of "old" will produce a results hitlist of all PDF topics in which any of the terms "old", "oldest", "older" or "elder" appear
Selecting any topic in the hitlist displays the topic with all occurrences of the search term and/or its linguistic derivations highlighted
The end user may specify whether topics in the hitlist should be listed in either sequential order, or in ranked (based on significance) order
The end user may specify whether the search scope should consist of topic titles, topic contents, or both
The end user may specify whether search term matching should be exact with case sensitivity, exact without case sensitivity or fuzzy (i.e. morphological)
The IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe works either when Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) is itself running as a plug-in to a web browser, or is running in stand-alone mode. The former is typically the case when the Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) is launched by the Library Server for z/OS V1R7 (or later) product for a PDF in its Shelf Search Results List. The later is typically the case when the Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) is launched by the Softcopy Reader V3.6 (or later) tool for a PDF in its Shelf Quick Search Results List. In either case, the Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in is automatically launched to apply the search criteria to the selected PDF at the client machine.
Regardless of whether Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) is run stand-alone or run as a browser plug-in, the Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in may be launched directly by the end user to perform additional searches at the client machine via the Advanced Linguistic Search icon on the Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) toolbar, or via the Advanced Linguistic Search selection on the Adobe Edit Menu.
The latest version (V1.4.1) of the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe is intended for use with Adobe Reader V9 or Adobe Acrobat V9 running on Windows XP or Windows 2000. It is recommended to use the previous version (V1.3) of the Plug-in with Adobe Reader V7 or Adobe Acrobat V7, or V1.4 with Adobe Reader V8 or Adobe Acrobat V8. Versions 1.4.1, 1.4 and 1.3 of the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe are available at this site.
Once installed, the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe can be used to perform linguistic-based searches on Adobe PDFs that have been enabled with an IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Index. Such enabled PDFs are currently available:
Via the "Manage Document Indexes" administrative function of IBM Library Server for z/OS V1R9 (or later)
On the z/OS V1R9 (or later) Collection (SK3T-4269-19 or later), softcopy pubs CDs
On the z/OS V1R9 (or later) and Software Products DVD Collection (SK3T-4271-19 or later), softcopy pubs DVDs
On the z/VM Collection (SK2T-2067-24 or later), softcopy pubs CDs
On the z/VM Collection on DVD (SK5T-7054-01 or later), softcopy pubs DVD
On many of the IBM z/OS V1R9 (or later) and z/VM V5R3 (or later) pubs stored on the IBM Publib z/OS V1R9 LibraryCenter.
To see how this works:
You will need either the free Adobe Reader (Link resides outside ibm.com) or Adobe Acrobat (Full, Standard, or Professional) installed on your workstation. Adobe V9, V8 or V7 is required.
Once you have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat installed, download the appropriate version of the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search plug-in from this page (V1.4.1 for Adobe V9, V1.4 for Adobe V8, or V1.3 for Adobe V7).
Download the following sample PDF file (PDF, 1.98MB) file from Publib, and search for the term "elder", by clicking on the new IBM Advanced Linguistic Search icon.