Re: searching/indexing pdf files from a web page

Hi,

This stuff is easy. 

Take a look at http://www.kscripts.com and http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Ksearch makes use of xpdf,  I have searched far and wide and nothing is as
easy to use as xpdf, even if you don't want to use Ksearch, they just were
smart enough to find xpdf and make good use of it. Follow the install
instructions for Ksearch, and life will be good. 


Eric 


At 08:34 PM 7/23/02 -0500, Hank Marquardt wrote:
>Good to know there is something out there ... but it seems to be MS only
>which limits it's utility some for me anyway.   I guess you could always
>use a windows box to do the indexing and then use the index on whatever
>platform you need ... 
>
>On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:15:38PM -0700, Ann Ezzell wrote:
>> 
>> As I pointed out to Mark off-list, there's an iFilter for PDFs that you
>> can install for Index Server / Indexing Services. Works like a charm.
>> 
>> To see an example of this in action, go here:
>> 
>> http://www.gpworldwide.com/_sitesearch/default.asp
>> 
>> Search for biosparging.
>> 
>> You should get 3 results, two of which are PDFs.
>> 
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
>> > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Hank Marquardt
>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:00 PM
>> > To: Johnson, Mark
>> > Cc: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
>> > Subject: Re: searching/indexing pdf files from a web page
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I guess this will depend on your definition of 'search' ... 
>> > so you just
>> > mean the title(filename)?, perhaps a database of info 
>> > associated with the file, -or- do you mean search the 
>> > contents of the pdf file itself?
>> > 
>> > That last one doesn't seem plausible ... a quick google search didn't
>> > turn up anything useful, and running 'strings' on a couple 
>> > pdf files on
>> > my machine yeilded nothing useful ... 
>> > 
>> > If it's just the filename or you have something in text form 
>> > that can be
>> > searched, you can do this with any server side language you choose.
>> > 
>> > Need more detail of what there is to work with.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:33:47AM +0100, Johnson, Mark wrote:
>> > > I have an archive of 500 PDF documents.  I need to create a 
>> > web page that
>> > > searches the documents and creates an index of the results. 
>> >  What's the best
>> > > way to do this?
>> > > 
>> > > Thanks,  Mark
>> > 
>> > -- 
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>
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