How do i create a search option for pdf's only

I need help with a search page. We are a circuit court and use the latest version of WordPress for our website (flcourts18.org). We want the public to be able to search our administrative orders, which are all pdf's only from a specific folder where only the admin orders are stored. How do I setup a search page that will only search the pdf's from within a single folder? There are hundred of pdf's. We would like to search by AO# and by Text. Thank you for your help.

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Any media item (including PDFs) is just another type of post. So you need to create a search that will look inside the media folder for all PDFs.

But that won't help search inside the PDF, though. That's a bit more complex, requiring the ability to 'look inside' the PDF file's content. And a bit complex to detail here.

But there are plugins that will do the work for you. One is SearchWP , although it is a premium ($$) one. (Which might get me a downvote for recommending plugins, but I am of the opinion that pointing people in the right direction is a good thing.) I have no experience with it, just noticed it via asking the googles.

There are other 'search enhancers' that you can find in the plugin directory, or by asking the googles.

You could also use the Google Search process to index (make searchable) your PDFs.

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