Re: [htdig] pdf, txt, asp, etc.

[David A. <D.J...@so...>]

Normally, a .txt file is "plain/text" and htdig will not need a converter
script, though you could provide one if you wished.
I think a parser which can provide meta tags and title from any given
plain/text page would be too difficult, but if you have a set of document=
s
in a common style then you might be able to do something.

.asp URLs are usually scripts which return "plain/HTML", and their author=
s
should have provided sensible META tags and titles.

Htdig does need a converter for Acrobat files (.pdf), and the xpdf packag=
e
is suitable.  Xpdf includes code for converting .pdf files into HTML, but
(IMHO) the pdf2html.pl script included with doc2html will make a better j=
ob
of META tags and title.  pdf2html.pl uses pdfinfo and pdftotext from the
xpdf package.

--
David Adams
Computing Services
Southampton University


----- Original Message -----
From: "Am=E9lie Frenette" <amelie.frenette@UMontreal.CA>
To: <htd...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: [htdig] pdf, txt, asp, etc.


Hi,

I know that a parser can convert pdf, txt, asp files to html. For pdf and
txt
files, does all the information is transfered into the body of the html f=
ile
?
If so, if HT://Dig is set to consider meta tags and title, it will not be
useful ?

Thanks for your support,


Am=E9lie Frenette
=C9tudiante =E0 la ma=EEtrise
Sciences de l'information
Sp=E9c. Gestion de l'information =E9lectronique
Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al

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