Search in PDF files

[spookie]

Hi ,

I want to search for the specific content/keyword in PDF file.
How can i acheive this ? I need to filter out the headers generated by PDF files.?

Any help or info in that direction is most welcome.

Thanks in advance.


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[vbkris]

where is this PDF file located? on the server?

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[spookie]

Yes the files are located on the server.

TIA

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[sleipnir214]

What you might do is use something like xpdf (

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)

to convert the PDFs in question to text files and then search the text version.


There's also something like swish-e, which is a content indexer. It comes with a filter for PDFs. It's a perl script, though.

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!!

 

[sleipnir214]

Oops. xpdf is an opensource PDF viewer. But it has available in the package an app pdftotext.

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!!

 

[spookie]

Thanks sleipnir214!!

I will try that out.

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