[Nutch-dev] Alternative Content Types

[Mike Richmond]

To Whom It May Concern: I am a Java developer looking to get involved with a project.  I came across your site and noticed that there is a lot of attention paid to PDF parsing.  I’m curious why PDF file parsing has not yet been added to Nutch.  There seem to be a number of open source (GPL’d) PDF parsers: PDFBox (http://pdfbox.org) XPDF (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) Pdftohtml (http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net) Etc…   Is there a reason that these are not used, or are you just waiting for someone to implement it?     Regards,   Mike Richmond