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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:12:42 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        vogelke+unix@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PDF inventory software
Message-ID:  <20090609111242.52f45201.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090609023702.EF4D2BED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>
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On Mon,  8 Jun 2009 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT), vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) wrote:
>    Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they
>    contain text?  If the latter, you could use something like xapian or
>    hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files.

On a much lower level, PDF files that contain text could be
decomposited into ASCII using pdftotext, making it easy for
further indexing.



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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