> I have a huge amount of documents in PDF format (zSeries > Linux related) that > I need to make available for reference, > I am hoping to find a solution (Linux would be nice) that > would scan/present > the first page of each of the PDF's,
Would the ability to index the documents, search for a phrase, and then click on the document in a list returned instead of the thumbnail approach be acceptable? If so, check out the Drupal content management system (www.drupal.org), and the Swish-E Indexer (www.swish-e.org) plugin module. This gives you a easy way to maintain the library (via the Drupal file upload capability, which can be safely delegated to someone else), index documents in lots of different formats, and present a easy search method to search and view them. This solution works on plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Excel and just about any file that can be converted to XML or HTML text (ie IBM Bookmaster documents processed with B2H). If you really needed the thumbnails, you could use a script that looped through the files and used Ghostscript to render the 1st page of each PDF document to a GIF/JPG, then used a slightly modified version of the Drupal gallery module to present the images with a link to the full document. We've used variations of both techniques on www.sinenomine.net, if you'd like to get an idea of what can be done. Both are known to work acceptably on Linux on 390. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
