As part of an elearning piece Im making, one section comprises about 50-60 pdf docs of policies etc.
Is there any simple way to search for a doc by entering a part of the name?
I was able to do amazing things with SQLite. Basically, I converted a web app to a Mac / iOS / iPadOS app and then used Swift to send data to the web pages. This allowed for really fast local search. I was able to add search to The Bible, a Dictionary, a thesaurus, and a ZIP Code search for weather related data.
That was fairly complicated coding though. Also, you have another problem… you're using PDFs… ouch!
So…
Challenge #1 — Get the data out of the PDFs and into standard web pages… or create some sort of index of those PDFs.
Challenge #2 — Get some sort of database running.
It sounds like… extreme coding is not an option and perhaps it's not realistic to setup a web server with a database.
So… here's another idea… an inefficient idea… lousy for memory management… but possibly functional for just 50-60 rows…
Step #1 — Create a spreadsheet…
PDF FILE NAME | Keywords
Step #2 — Convert that spreadsheet to a two-dimensional array.
That can be done with Mr. Data Converter… Mr. Data Converter
The basic idea of how a multidimensional array can work in a Hype project is shown here… Free Template Tuesday #11 – Tumult Hype “Multilingual” – Photics.com
Step #3 — Use JavaScript to search that array. With every keystroke event in a field, a list can be returned. JavaScript is used to create that list. That's what I used…
I typed the letter “G” in the “Book” field and it returned all the Bible books with the letter “G”. If I keep tying, it filters the list even more…
It's a JavaScript event listener, that listens for key presses in the HTML text input element. Each time a key is pressed, the results are updated. It sounds like a lot crunching for the CPU, but it was really quick.
Originally, I was just using big JavaScript arrays, but that was wasting so much memory. It was around a quarter of a gig, which is why I switched to SQLite with Swift.
I've been looking at how to move this over to Progressive Web Apps, for a cross-platform solution, but I don't want to use WASM.
Perhaps IndexedDB is a solution…
…but I haven't really gotten started with my PWA projects. I think IndexedDB might be what I'm looking for, but I don't know enough about it yet. Solving this problem is something I've been wanting to do, but… YouTube. 
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