General interest question: PDF contents handling in PostgreSQL.

[Fabián R. Breschi]

Dear Group,

I wonder if using ModPerl and PostgreSQL there's any possibility to resemble what in Oracle is called 'Intermedia', in this particular case parsing/indexing content of PDF files inside PostgreSQL as a LOB or alternatively as a flat OS file with metadata parsed/indexed from it into the RDBMS.

For what I can understand, this issue may involve directly PostgreSQL thought as having an analog functionality compared with Oracle 8i/9i so, as far as I know this feature is not implemented natively but probably could has been developed aside as a procedural object or similar.

Perhaps something exists in regards of ModPerl used along the RDBMS itself.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks indeed.

Fabian R. Breschi