I have a Joomla component that does that. It's called PDF Indexer. It creates a searchable text file for the pdf. When you find it in the search results it tells you which pdf it's in along with a link to open the pdf.
But this client wants the search results to take you to the location of the keyword in the pdf. ----- Original Message ---- From: Anthony Ferrara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 12:55:52 PM Subject: Re: [joomla] Quark to html well... I do have a class that I wrote that can extract all text from a pdf... BTW, there IS a good site search... It's called Google Mini... --- forest mars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Graham Spice > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would > have been the best, I > > think. > > > > Adobe had the chance to make pdf the format of > choice for moving print media > to the web. > > They dropped that ball long ago. pdf's work for what > they are --portable > documents-- but are completely inadequate for > websites. > > Since indexing doesn't work, you're just as well off > to go with Flash. Oh, > and lose the Quark too. > > InDesign supports XML templating for print and while > it has an export > function for web based workflows, IMO the better > solution is just to call > the same XML from Flash that you call from InDesign > for print. Easy peasy. > > Obviously this leaves the indexibility problem > unsolved, but preserves the > design. Fixing indexibility may likely be a matter > of passing off the XML > page to the correct handler. If anyone is really > interested in this, I'll > save it for another email. > > HTH, > > Forest > -- > "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the > same. > In practice, they're completely different." > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
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