Re: [htdig] can't index PDF files

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Try:

external_parsers:  \
         application/pdf->text/html /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl

I have to agree with you that this is not easy.  Only it isn't easy to make
it easy either!

--
David Adams
Information Systems Services
Southampton University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Friendly" <friendly@YorkU.CA>
To: <htd...@li...>
Cc: "Geoff Hutchison" <ghu...@ws...>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [htdig] can't index PDF files

> OK, so I re-read all the FAQ sections, configured doc2html and pdf2html,
> and used them as external parsers, with
>
> external_parsers:  \
>         application/pdf /usr/local/bin/doc2html
>
> now, I get hundreds of error messages,
>
> External parser error: unknown field in line <HTML>
>  URL: .... vcdstory.pdf
> External parser error: unknown field in line <HEAD>
>  URL: .... vcdstory.pdf
>   ....
>
>
>
> It's not clear to me why this should be so hard.
>
> Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Michael Friendly wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I've read the FAQ on this topic, but still can't get rundig to index pdf
> >>files.  I have set
> >>
> >>max_doc_size:            500000
> >>
> >>pdf_parser:  /usr/bin/htdig-pdfparser
> >>debian_pdf_parser:  xpdf
> >>
> >>and verified that pdftotext works from the command line on my debian
> >>
> >>
> >
> >No, I don't think this is what you want to do. The pdf_parser attribute
is
> >now quite depreciated--it really, truly expects Acrobat-generated PS
> >files.
> >
> >I'd look at the FAQ again (specifically q4.9):
> >http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.9
> >
> >--
> >-Geoff Hutchison
> >Williams Students Online
> >http://wso.williams.edu/
> >
> >
> >
>
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