Re: Will Beagle index PDFs?

[Ralph Aichinger <ralph mail pangea at>]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 17:33, Jon Trowbridge wrote:

> It is too bad that pdftotext doesn't provide a straightforward way to
> get at the metadata.  

I don't know if it is any help, but there is a small utility called
pdfinfo from the xpdf distribution that extracts the metadata in the
PDF that Acrobat displays. Maybe it could help here? 

ralph silver:~$ pdfinfo /data/Technik/Leitlinien-Blinde.Menschen.PDF
Title:          leitlinien-gestaltung von barrierefreien websites1.qxd
Author:         jg1
Creator:        Pscript.dll Version 5.0
Producer:       Acrobat Distiller 5.0 (Windows)
CreationDate:   Mon Apr  8 08:35:02 2002
ModDate:        Mon Apr  8 10:39:45 2002
Tagged:         no
Pages:          22
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      425.981 x 602.079 pts
File size:      124786 bytes
Optimized:      yes
PDF version:    1.4

/ralph