>Hmm.. The command
>
>find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
>
>works in directories in which no PDF file returns the "Document has
>not the mandatory ending %EOF" error. When a directory contains one
>of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
>ignore or skip over this %EOF
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood :
> When I enter:
>
> $ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdftotext
>
> nothing seems to happen. Although there is no error message, the text
> files are not created. Any idea why?
>
Ah, apologies. I was just testing with
$ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 cat
to see if the pi
Daniel,
> I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
> "pdftotext". I tried the following command:
Aside from the syntax of the command find(1) and some article that may
be in corrupted PDF, you may consider hacking pdftotext to skip the
"do not print" flag in some of the P
I retrieved a fresh copy of the error-causing PDF, and now all is
well. Thanks for all the excellent help!
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:03 -0500, LoH wrote:
> Daniel Underwood wrote:
> > Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me:
> >
> > $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf
> > Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
> >
> >
>
> It's probab
Daniel Underwood wrote:
Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me:
$ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program.
--Joseph Lenox
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Hmm.. The command
find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
works in directories in which no PDF file returns the "Document has
not the mandatory ending %EOF" error. When a directory contains one
of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
ignore or skip over this %EOF problem
Daniel Underwood wrote:
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
Have you run pdftotext on a single file in your archive as a test?
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$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
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ill...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood :
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
"pdftotext". I tried the following command:
$ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext
Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf
Sanda-JAMA-2009 (P
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood :
> I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
> "pdftotext". I tried the following command:
>
> $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext
> Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf
> Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Trea
On Jun 8, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote:
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
downloaded onto my local drive.
In the cour
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
"pdftotext". I tried the following command:
$ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext
Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf
Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf
'
Why is this not working?
Le 8 juin 09 à 23:17, Daniel Underwood a écrit :
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
downloaded onto my local drive.
Hi Daniel,
I
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:11:50 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from
> within PDFs?
I don't think so, b
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT), vogelke+u...@pobox.com (Karl Vogel)
wrote:
>Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they
>contain text? If the latter, you could use something like xapian or
>hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files.
On a
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local dr
Daniel Underwood wrote:
A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google
scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for.
True, but in this situation, I want to find something within a local
collection of literature. E.g., find a table of d
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from
> > within PDFs?
>
> pdftotext, c
> Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from
> within PDFs?
pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think
Olivier
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Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from
within PDFs?
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>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400,
>> Daniel Underwood said:
D> In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I
D> find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I
D> only recall a few "things" about the article, often the author and a
D> keywo
Hi,
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local drive.
Certainly overkill, but dspace(.org) can keep up a digi
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local drive.
Hel
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:45:38 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas!
I'd like to add that if you define your data fields well, you
can use it to generate BibTeX and other LaTeX entries from your
records.
You can even easily turn it into HTML.
But as I said:
Daniel Underwood wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local drive.
>
> In the course of reading lit
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local dr
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas!
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local drive.
Daniel Underwood wrote:
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
downloaded onto my local drive.
In the course of reading literature for r
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
downloaded onto my local drive.
In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens
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