Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:49:29 -0700 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: djuatdelta@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software Message-ID: <d873d5be0906101649s66f20fd9wac4b08c4f74d1763@mail.gmail.com>
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>Hmm.. The command
>
>find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
>
>works in directories in which no PDF file returns the "Document has
>not the mandatory ending %EOF" error. When a directory contains one
>of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
>ignore or skip over this %EOF problem and continue operating on the
>remaining PDFs?
Use something like:
find -X DIR -name '*.[pP][dD][fF]' | xargs -I % pdftotext "%"
where DIR is the root of the filesystem directory hierarchy to be searched.
Be careful of how many arguments you feed to pdftotext: it can overwrite
files. You may need to handle some files with encryption, etc. differently.
b.
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