From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jun 11 00:14:26 2009
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94915106564A
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:14:26 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com)
Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.240])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465728FC0A
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:14:25 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com)
Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c3so624337ana.13
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
	d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
	h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject
	:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	bh=18FucAcrL+kIeQhr1V8z2slwyMMlLFvHE3+/csvGczw=;
	b=eNc5OP9yyp6lXwfTBi/K+ad3y5DeaHdbE9wnPyhZp0Y2S2PxV0j+NQnhwRmjUfqn6B
	yksdHNg3KkVTZmeVsixpi7jh1PVbcKhLJR7oerT4EsvEy68f5gwvDuanBY0isqed0exE
	da9VeZ3BP9tkWDAJkeb+5n+vi7UsuMdUgHuB4=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
	h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding;
	b=SRzpdQQeViMvap022ovilkbujRE3H013g8zO1OEw3qx/9CnWDuKnrdFBV+WuKN9pPh
	P3/gIaYfkVpn9jMQESBClUapWrexuk4SCSSW8RoMHZ3WQCm6QJuXM5UOMJphkIyfEgGK
	clTFNoMkaqrQCm4eoVzSVTQVrGTYIYejDVhNE=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.231.36.8 with SMTP id r8mr1046583ibd.8.1244677769119; Wed, 10 
	Jun 2009 16:49:29 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:49:29 -0700
Message-ID: <d873d5be0906101649s66f20fd9wac4b08c4f74d1763@mail.gmail.com>
From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To: djuatdelta@gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: PDF inventory software
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:14:26 -0000

>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.