Jillian, I have done some research on the same subject except for the windows platform, some of theses links may help you out. I think the http://www.iceni.com/ may be of interest for cross platform products.
http://www.convertzone.com/pdf2txt/ http://www.iceni.com/argusSet.html http://www.iceni.com/soloSet.html http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html http://www.imagesolutions.com/ http://www.bcl-computers.com/products/products.htm http://www.palmtop.net/super6.html http://www.pdftoall.com/ Best regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Web Design and Hosting Company tel: (203)879-2844 fax: (203)879-6254 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://dennis.uxb.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Jillian Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Converting PDF's to text I'm faced with a bit of a problem here... I've got a client who is hosted on my CF 5 (soon to be CFMX once I can get CFMX to run stable in my testing environment) box on Linux. This client has a need to search through PDF's... well it has become very apparent that CF on Linux will not index PDF's... even though it will under Windows. With that said... I need a solution. One idea I had was to find a utility that would convert PDF's to text files and then search them, but point the search results back to the PDF itself. Has anybody had to design a workaround for this problem? Does anybody know of a good utility to help me with this task? Any help would be appreciated. -- Jillian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.