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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.



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