can i search my website that has .doc and .pdf attachments in storys and pages etc?

I've got a skeletal module that attaches some test text to each node's search data as part of the normal indexing process:

<?php

/**
 * Implementation of hook_nodeapi().
 */
function search_attachments_nodeapi($node, $op, $arg = 0) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'update index':
      return search_attachments_node_update_index($node);
  }
}


/**
 * Implementation of hook_nodeapi('update index').
 */
function search_attachments_node_update_index(&$node) {
      return ' test text to attach';
}
?>

The next step is to identify the attachments for each module, extract the text for each, and add the text to the parent node's search data. I'll work on this over the next week or so... if all goes right, the result will be a module that will index .doc and .pdf files and merge their text with that of the parent node, so that search hits in the attached text wil return the parent node. We'll go from there. The module will only work if you have the extractor utilities (catdoc, pdftotext) installed, however.