I just answered my own question.
The program is pdftotext, part of the xpdf package available for unix
machines.
It is very cool and very fast.
terry
Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
Terry Kerr wrote:
Hi,
I need to be able to index the text within pdf files. I assume I will
somehow use PrincipiaSearchSource, but I need to know how to get the
text out of the pdf when it is uploaded to the ZODB. Has anyone done
this before? Are there any packages around that I can use that run in
python or at least on a linux box that I can pipe to and from?
terry
from xml2pdf there are a multitude of ways in python
XSLT - check out the ibm.com/developer xmlzone they have an article in
the education lib for transforming xml to pdf.
platypus packages from
http://www.reportlab.com/
they might give you some help in going the other way..
as for implementation...
looking at a pdf in a text viewer it appears to be formating text and
encoded display strings.
you could write a subclass of file, which read its content upon upload
stripping the formatting string and decoding the display strings and
storing that as a property to be indexed.
Kapil
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