A final option would be to purchase the Verity KeyView SDK so that you can perform the indexing directly, but that costs money.
Regards, Rob Rusher --- Justin MacCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
