Glad that you have made progress.
I don't recognize the "PRINT OUTPUNT!!!???" message, but to run doc2html.pl
from the command line it is necessary to give two arguments:
doc2html.pl filename.pdf application/pdf
It this fails try:
pdf2html.pl filename.pdf
David Adams
Corporate Information Services
Information Systems Services
University of Southampton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Natalya Kolesnikova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Joisten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [htdig] PDF-SEARCH
> Ok, it runs with conv_doc.pl!!!! Thank all people who help me!!!!
>
> If I run doc2html.pl with pdf-file as argument from command line, I get
> PRINT OUTPUNT!!!???
>
>
> best regards
> Natalya
>
> > Hi Natalya,
> > then it seems that the path to perl is wrong and that's why the Perl
> > Script(s) don't work.
> >
> > Check out the first lines of each Perl Script (.pl) and correct the path
> > to perl. Maybe there isn't even perl installed ;-)
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > Natalya Kolesnikova schrieb:
> >
> > > Hello David,
> > >
> > > thank you very much for your support!
> > >
> > > Yes, htdig is reading a.pdf-file. pdftotext and pdfinfo are working
ok,
> > too.
> > > But when I run conv_doc.pl (or doc2html.pl ) from command line with a
> > > pdf-file as a argument I get error message:
> > > bad interpreter: no such file or directory/usr/bin/perl.
> > >
> > > What is here wrong???
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > Natalya
> > >
> > >
> > >>OK, so far we have established:
> > >>
> > >>1) Htdig is reading a .PDF file
> > >>2) You are attempting to use /usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl to convert
> > it.
> > >>3) No text is being extracted from the .PDF file, so it is not
being
> > >>indexed.
> > >>
> > >>This suggests that the fault is with /usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl.
Please
> > >>try
> > >>executing this from the command line:
> > >>
> > >> /usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl somepdffile.pdf
> > >>
> > >>where somepdffile.pdf is a PDF file from which it should be able to
> > >>extract
> > >>text. See what happens.
> > >>This is a necessary step in the diagnosis.
> > >>
> > >>David Adams
> > >>Corporate Information Services
> > >>Information Systems Services
> > >>University of Southampton
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "Natalya Kolesnikova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: "Gilles Detillieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:51 AM
> > >>Subject: Re: [htdig] PDF-SEARCH
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Yes, I get error message "Deleted: no excerpt"!!!
> > >>>
> > >>>Natalya
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>According to Natalya Kolesnikova:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>Thank you, David, for your help!
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>But when I run htmerge, I get follow message:
> > >>>>>htmerge: Document database has no URLs. Check your config file and
> > >>
> > >>try
> > >>
> > >>>>>running htdig again.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Are there any other htmerge error messages, such as a "Deleted: no
> > >>>>excerpt"
> > >>>>message? I suspect what's happening here is that htdig adds the
> > >>
> > >>single
> > >>
> > >>>>URL for the PDF file, which you specify in start_url, to the
database,
> > >>>>but when it tries to index it, it finds nothing to index. When
> > >>
> > >>htmerge
> > >>
> > >>>>sees that nothing was indexed for this one document, it removes it
> > >>
> > >>from
> > >>
> > >>>>the database, but then complains that there are no URLs left in the
> > >>>>database.
> > >>>>Seeing all the htmerge error messages (try htmerge -v after htdig)
> > >>
> > >>would
> > >>
> > >>>>give us a more complete picture.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Please follow through on Dave's and my suggestions below...
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>Ok, your configuration file contains:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>external_parsers: application/msword->text/html
> > >>>>
> > >>>>/usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>\
> > >>>>>> application/postscript->text/html
> > >>>>
> > >>>>/usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>\
> > >>>>>> application/pdf->text/html
> > >>
> > >>/usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl
> > >>
> > >>>>>>so you are using conv_doc.pl.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>Please check one thing in your configuration file: make sure there
> > >>
> > >>are
> > >>
> > >>>>no
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>white space characters after the \ characters at the end of lines,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>this is
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>most important.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>My first hunch is that this isn't the problem, because if htdig
didn't
> > >>>>see the full external_parsers definition (all 3 lines of it), it
> > >>
> > >>likely
> > >>
> > >>>>would be trying to use acroread and the PDF:: class, so we'd see
> > >>
> > >>messages
> > >>
> > >>>>>>from there. However, it's an easy thing to check for, and always
a
> > >>
> > >>good
> > >>
> > >>>>idea to pay close attention to in any case, so please do have a look
> > >>
> > >>at
> > >>
> > >>>>these lines.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>If your configuration file is OK, then the problem must be with
> > >>>>>>/usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl or the utilities it calls.
> > >>>>>>Try running /usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl from the command line with
> > >>
> > >>a
> > >>
> > >>>>.PDF
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>file as argument and see what the result is.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>This is a very important test. Your first test, with the start_url
> > >>
> > >>set
> > >>to
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
http://intranet.panasonic.de/pel/ipr/training_course/IPR_books_JPO/introduct
ion_to_IPR.pdf
> > >
> > >>>>showed that it failed with this single PDF file, which suggests a
> > >>
> > >>problem
> > >>
> > >>>>either with that PDF file or with the setup of the external parser.
> > >>>>The next step is to find out which is at fault, and this test will
do
> > >>>>that. If it fails on the introduction_to_IPR.pdf file (i.e. it
> > >>
> > >>produces
> > >>
> > >>>>no output), try it on a few other files as well. If it doesn't work
> > >>
> > >>on
> > >>
> > >>>>any of them, I'd suspect that conv_doc.pl is not properly
configured.
> > >>>>In this case, you should try pdftotext directly on these PDF files
to
> > >>>>see if that works.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>If it produces output for some PDF files, but not others, it may be
> > >>
> > >>that
> > >>
> > >>>>the ones for which it produces nothing actually contain no indexable
> > >>
> > >>text.
> > >>
> > >>>>Some PDF files contain only image data, including perhaps scanned
> > >>
> > >>pages
> > >>
> > >>>>that display as text, but in fact are only a "picture" of a page.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Once you can get conv_doc.pl to spit out text when run manually,
> > >>>>the following step will be to try htdig on those same PDF files,
> > >>>>one at a time, using htdig -ivvvv (note: 4 "v" options this time,
> > >>>>so htdig shows each word it parses). If you get that far, then the
> > >>>>next stage would be to use your original start_url to index your
whole
> > >>>>site, and see if it will find all the PDF files. If it doesn't, see
> > >>>>http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.27
> > >>>>
> > >>>>--
> > >>>>Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>>>Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW:
> > >>
> > >>http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
> > >>
> > >>>>Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)
> > >>>>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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