I'm trying do do a research page that search every pdf from my database that contain the keyword I'm searching.
The problem is I can't have my pdf + the raw text inside my Database (I am extremely short on the space...)
What I am doing right now is when a user search something, On all my pdf, one by one I use a .php I transform the PDF into raw text then search for the keywords... But this is really long before having a result. and I fear when they'll be many user my server won't like it. (I just assume that I've never used server before and I don't really know what is good or bad)
Would it be worth it for me to add space on my server to put all the raw text from my pdf into the database aswell so I can search with Mysql query ? or is there a smarter way to do it i didn't think of ?
(I don't have the PDF inside the database, just the path, so i can't get space on that)