[htdig] Re: pdf-files?

[Bill A. <bil...@em...>]

Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:31:04 +0200
To: htd...@li... 
From: "htdig" <ht...@ac...>
Subject: [htdig] pdf-files?

>I have htdig running mostly as wanted.
>It does not seem to index .pdf files, and I'm sure it has to do with
my
>lack of understanding.

>The only thing I found in the FAQ was 'a too narrow max_size, whick is
set
>to 2000000, and my largest .pdf file is about 900000.

Hi!

I'll take a stab at this...

If you are using the apache indexing, you need to make sure your
largest document size exceeds the size of your largest dir (do a ls -l
in dir above where your docs reside and add some for growth), not just
your largest document.  The reason is dig reads in the index but if it
exceeds the largest size, it is trucated and only gets the docs up to
that point.  I had this problem before and that fixed it.


>However I think it has something to do with a lack of any "PDF2TEXT"
>conversionmodule I have to install ???

>Would anyone pse enlighten me what I have to do.
> The environment is RH7.1, Apache and ht://Dig 3.2.0b4

Get the scripts  listed below from http://htdig.org/contrib/ and put
the following in your .conf file:
external_parsers: application/rtf->text/html /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl
\
                  text/rtf->text/html /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl \
                  application/pdf->text/html /usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl
\
                  application/postscript->text/html
/usr/local/bin/doc2html.pl \

You will need perl
(http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl)
installed to use the files as well as xpdf
(http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)


>finn

HTH!




Bill Akins, CNE
Sr. OSA
Emory Healthcare
(404) 712-2879 - Office
12674 - PIC
bil...@em...


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