Re: [Tracker] performance problems in the pdf extractor?

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 10/02/10 14:55, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Hi!,
> Ideally (at least for my case), there should be a quick has_text()
> function in poppler, so we don't make it uselessly go through all
> streams. But this boils down to a more general problem, while extractors
> should give up after some time, there should be a more elegant way to
> tell the miner so than a DBus timeout, I plan to work on this soon.

I wonder if the patch on this bug could be used to improve the PDF 
situation?

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609075

Also PDF has always been slow to extract.

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Regards,
Martyn