Lucene - Java Applet - PDFs
Using Apache Lucene ([login to view URL]) and a signed Java applet
Scan and index a local network drive (many sub-directories) of PDFs documents.
HTML/JSP front end, uses applet to search (not case sensentive) internal contents PDF documents.
Highlights in HTML, portion of PDF containing searched term, identifies page number and has a link to local network drive to open particular PDF on that particular page.
See pic for example.
I suppose to do this project withing the correct time as you will be exciting after seen a unexpected project. I may used the latest technologies which released very recently.