Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:50:56 -0500 From: Lord Of Hyphens <lordofhyphens@gmail.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software Message-ID: <b0442c260906082050v3409a003yb9f416323ebe983c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906090321.n593LnOa088398@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com> <20090609023702.EF4D2BED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <b6c05a470906082011i75fe455cg97d237b2bb9b47a8@mail.gmail.com> <200906090321.n593LnOa088398@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I > > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the > > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from > > within PDFs? > > pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think > > Olivier > > A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. -- "Nothing unreal exists." - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics.
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