Sooner Boomer writes "I'm trying to help drag a teacher I work with into the 20th century. whereas
notes:although and though are interchangeable as conjunctions he is byzantine in cutting-edge inquisition (nanotechnology), his method of literature search is to begin with digging through the hundreds of 3-ring binders that contain devices (usually from PDFs) that he has printed out. Even though the binders are labeled, the crop can only go under one 'heading' and there's no way to do a keyword search on subject, methods, materials, etc. Yeah, google is pretty good for finding stuff, as are other on-line literature services, but they only work for shebang* that are already on-line. His literature also includes equipage copied from books, skillful correspondence, and other sources. Is there a FOSS database or archive method (preferably with a web interface) where he could archive the PDFs and scanned conclusions and be able to search by keywords? It would also be nice to categorize them under lots subject headings if possible. I know this has been covered ad nauseum with things like photos and the like, but I'm not looking at storage as such: instead I'm trying to find what's stored."

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