[ic] Search content of a PDF file
maillists
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Sun May 28 21:15:56 EDT 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 01:33 +0100, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> maillists <lists at gmnet.net> wrote:
> > I have a client who has about 150 pdf files, and each file contains
> > about 20 - 50 pages of text!
> >
> > They want to have a search engine that can search the content of these
> > files, and display at least a link to the pdf files for download.
> >
> > Is there a good way for IC to do this kind of search, or should I
> > integrate some other system for this into the IC site.
> >
> > My first thought was to copy/paste all the content of each file into a
> > database. But I was wondering if there was a way to search inside the
> > content of the pdf file itself. Speed is not too much an issue.
> >
> Swish-e can be used to index the content of PDF files. Interchange
> searches can make use of Swish-e indexes (st=swish).
>
Thank you all,
Looks like I have some new homework!
Later
Rick
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