Tim Donohue wrote: > (2) If you look closely at the PDFBox site, you'll notice that software > has *not* had an updated release since Oct 2006.
And if you keep looking at that site, you aren't likely to see much activity in the future. You should try looking here: http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/ > Personally, because of the lack of activity around the PDFBox software, > I feel DSpace should start to investigate *other means* to filter PDFs. > If anyone out there is aware of software that could *replace* PDFBox, > I think that would be worth closer investigation. I'd love to help > DSpace get around these filtering issues...we just need to come up with > some potential solutions. There are a few options, but all require licensing - although one has a 'dubious' dual licensing scheme (not that I'm saying there license is dubious, but it's implications for us are). Apache incubation should be taken as a positive step though, and the best route of progress is to get hands on in attempting to fix the bugs that we do find. G This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
