Suggestion, convert pdf into text and use a full text search in your database, or index your text docs. so for each
a.pdf have a a.txt search the txt pages and modify the link to point to the corresponding pdf? kludge, but might work.. Justin > -----Original Message----- > From: Jillian Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 October 2002 20:52 > To: CF-Linux > Subject: RE: Indexing PDFs > > > We've actually looked into htdig... and I don't think it will > work. (Please > correct me if I am wrong, I haven't actually used htdig... only > done a short > evaluation to see if it might help us) > > From what I can tell... htdig will not index database content... > so it would > mean we would have to use two search engines. So I had a bright > idea... let > htdig index the pdfs, and then have cf index the db that htdig uses... but > it appears htdig uses a unix flatfile db in a binary format... so > I can't do > that. Is there any way to configure htdig to use another type of db? > > -- > Jillian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Schoby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:21 PM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: RE: Indexing PDFs > > > You could set up htDig to index your pdf files and make them searchable > > www.htdig.org > > Takes a little bit of setup, but most of the utils you need should be > installed already and you'd just need to tell htDig to use them/where to > find them on your system. We use this on our Linux webserver to index > our entire site, pdfs and all. Works well and is free. Not sure if > this will help with respect to Cold Fusion...but it is a way to do it. > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/09/02 07:56AM >>> > Jesse, > > I am well aware of this... hence my asking for alternative > suggestions. > > -- > Jillian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Noller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:24 AM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: RE: Indexing PDFs > > > Read the release notes, AFAIK indexing PDFs on Linux is not, and has > not > been supported. > > Jesse Noller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Macromedia Server Development > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jillian Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:34 PM > > To: CF-Linux > > Subject: Indexing PDFs > > > > I'm really running into a problem with the fact that CF on Linux > cannot > > index PDFs... even though it works perfectly well on Windows. > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions for me? I'd be VERY appreciative! > > > > -- > > Jillian > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
