I think the best solution for your problem is using the oracle FTS engine. It gives you this function. I donīt know if you can do what you want directly with Lucene like oracle solution does. sudarshan angirash wrote: > hi all > > i have some PDF files stored in Oracle 9i as BLOB. > now i want to search for a string in those pdf files using Lucene. then i > want to show the selected PDF files which contains The String. > > if you can give me any pointers about how to do it, then it will be a gr8 > help for me. > > regards > sudarshan > -- Atenciosamente ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Fernando Engelmann Junior* /Analista de Sistemas SoftExpert Quality Software +55 (47) 21019955 http://www.softexpert.com / ------------------------------------------------------------------------