Re: Will Beagle index PDFs?

["Srikant Jakilinki" <sriks dcs gla ac uk>]

It is quite easy to index PDF's. Just use the "pdftotext" as a filter and  
so, yes, in the very near future it will be done Ralph. In fact, if you  
can spare a few moments, you can do it yourself on your *Nix box now. Just  
dump all your PDF's into a directory. Have a for loop running the  
pdftotext command redirecting your text into corresponding text files and  
do a simple grep on this directory. I use it this way and let me know if  
you want the script. I use things in conjunction with "libextractor" which  
can extract metadata from PDF's as well...

If you are looking at an opensource indexing thing to index PDF's,  
OpenOffice and all, Google for "Docsearcher" and you should see  
something...

The important thing is what we need to do with the indexed files. Simple  
keyword matching is not too intelligent I guess... more later

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:35:53 +0200, Ralph Aichinger <ralph mail pangea at>  
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I just love Beagle, as unfinished as ist is, especially searching
> OpenOffice documents.
>
> One thing would make it �ool though: Searching PDFs.
> This would make all the stuff you can put on a scanner and OCR
> within the reach of Beagle.
>
> On the Lucene (Java) page it says that filters like xpdf can
> be used to index PDFs. Can this be done with Beagle too? Would
> it be hard? Will it be implemented out of the box one day?
>
> TIA
> /ralph
>
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Srikant (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sriks)