Is there a tool to tag and retrieve pdf files ?

[The_Ave]

I have a large folder of pdfs. I want to tag and retrieve using tags.  is there a way to do this in Acrobat?

[Test Screen Name]

Acrobat has something called "tags" but they are nothing to do with this problem. Are you on a Mac by any chance? Recent Mac systems have, I believe, some kind of tagging available for all files.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can use the files' metadata for that, or you can add a comment, a form field, a bookmark, etc.

Regarding retrieving those files later on, that's a bit trickier. You can use the Advanced Search function or even the Action Wizard to search for these "tags".

[sajit63]

The Windows file system has a property attribute for all types of files, called tags. This is enabled and allows the user to edit for .jpg, MS office files and some others. For PDF this attribute 'tag' is not used by Adobe within the acrobat. Adobe and Microsoft should get together and spare PC users by allowing to edit this tag for PDF files.

This could be something to do with Microsoft trying to promote their own version of the xps. .xps do allow the edit of tags. Unfortunately PDF came before and is monopolizing the field. One will have to wait until xps becomes popular to get out of this monopoly.

[Test Screen Name]

XPS has its day, and is dead.

[sajit63]

How soon do you think that Acrobat will disappear? Entities that becomes monolithic and don't care about the users have to die and wither away in time.

[Test Screen Name]

Acrobat is not  especially important, nor is Adobe. PDF has a life of its own, and is not owned by Adobe; they just made the first and still the most popular software. Similarly, JPEG isn't going away any time soon, and what the Joint Photographic Export Group might or might not do isn't likely to affect that.