Re: [Tracker] not indexing text from PDF files

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 31/10/13 17:49, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 01:41 PM, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > /usr/libexec/tracker-extract -f /path/to/file.pdf
>
> Cool.  So, that on a the given file I see:
>
> SPARQL item:
> --
>   a nfo:PaginatedTextDocument ;
>          nie:title "NONE" ;
>          nie:subject "NONE" ;
>          nco:creator [ a nco:Contact ;
>          nco:fullname "NONE"] ;
>          nao:hasTag ?tag1 ;
>          nfo:pageCount 1 ;
>          nie:plainTextContent
> "list\nof\nwords\nseparated\nby\ncarriage-returns\n'' " .
>
> Searching for any of those words in the plainTextContent item fails.

OK. So you weren't expecting to find "RT00" with that file then :)

So there are a few things... first, I would check that the file is 
indexed before searching ... if it isn't then you won't find those 
words. Note that tracker-extract does not index the file, it just 
extracts the information, usually tracker-miner-fs calls APIs to talk to 
tracker-extract. The example above is really just a way to see what we 
find in a file you specify on the command line.

Is the file above file:///home/brian/tmp/2013-10-26-3.pdf ?

To make sure the file is indexed, you can use tracker-control -f 
$FILENAME and it should take care of that for you.

We are on IRC if you need more help... let us know :)

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
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