[Nms-cgi-devel] RE: [Nms-cgi-support] Simple search-questions

[Jonathan P. <jo...@sn...>]

At 20:32 25/02/02 +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:

>The 'text' in a  PDF file is stored as a page description, a sort of image
>file really, so the text that appears in the acrobat viewer doesn't
>actually appear literally in the file.  If you are on a Unix-like system
>you can see this for yourself by doing 'strings *.pdf'.  Simple Search
>really is *simple*, it looks for the plaintext strings that are specified
>on the form in the specified files, it won't find them in a PDF file.

I notice these people have the beginnings of a Perl PDF library - 
http://www.sanface.com/PDF-lib/ but it's not useable yet. Maybe some 
london.pm people might want to help out :-)