Re: Use an executable from java ...

2005-02-08 Thread Kristian Hermsdorf
Hi I ve a kind of problem to execute a converting tool to modify a pdf to an html under Linux. In fact, i have an executable pdftohtml which work correctly on batch mode, and when I want to use it through Java under Windows 2000 works also,BUT it does not work at all on the server under linux. I m

Re: Use an executable from java ...

2005-02-08 Thread Christiaan Fluit
Kristian Hermsdorf wrote: We're using pdftotext as well, because PDFbox ist really slow. If your application should work under Windows you will probably experiance some mystic Java-VM crashes while executing external processes in batch-mode. (This is because of a bug in Windows-VM... we

Re: Use an executable from java ...

2005-02-08 Thread Kristian Hermsdorf
Hi Christiaan Just to defend PDFBox: we actually recently decided to move in the opposite direction. I didn't want to offend PDFBox *g* We just removed pdftotext from our application and are now using PDFBox 0.7.0 for all our PDF processing. Before we were using them both in parallel: pdftotext

Use an executable from java ...

2005-01-31 Thread Bertrand VENZAL
Hi all, I ve a kind of problem to execute a converting tool to modify a pdf to an html under Linux. In fact, i have an executable pdftohtml which work correctly on batch mode, and when I want to use it through Java under Windows 2000 works also,BUT it does not work at all on the server under

Re: Use an executable from java ...

2005-01-31 Thread Ben Litchfield
I will assume you are asking this question on the lucene mailing list because you now want to index that PDF document. Have you tried PDFBox? It can't create an html file for you but it can extract text. Ben http://www.pdfbox.org On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Bertrand VENZAL wrote: Hi all, I ve

Re: Use an executable from java ...

2005-01-31 Thread Kelvin Tan
Check out http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html which provides some pointers and code which should be helpful. Cheers, Kelvin http://www.supermind.org On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:01:11 +0100, Bertrand VENZAL wrote:  Hi all,  I ve a kind of problem to execute a converting