I wrote a mod for indexing pdf without an external binary!!!
 

Hello people

I have written a modification, with which I now can index pdf-files.

The special is:
You don't need an external binary like ps2txt or another UNIX-tool.

The mod sends the pdf to adobe, which it converts to html-code.
After that, this code is indexed by phpDig.

For more information, please visit my homepage
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Is your robot_functions.php meant to completely replace the one that comes with phpdig? It's hard to tell since your site isn't in English. ;)

I had to change code at 4 or 5 positions in the already existing file robot_functions.

so, the easiest way is to replaceing this file (if you didnt made some changes in this file yourself, else make a backup!).

In the header of the file, I have listened all changes, i made.

The english part of it in my homepage will comming soon...
(Or has anyone desire for doing that?)

sorry for my bad english ;)

Please download and use only the actual version from my site.
(The older version has a bug)
I made it for the phpDig V1.8.1. It won't work with older version of phpDig.

Hi. From the Adobe Terms of Use located here:
Try one of the following external binaries for use with PhpDig.

• catdoc
• wp2html
• xls2csv
• xlhtml
• pstotext
• pdftotext
• ppt2text
• ppthtml

Please help keep PhpDig an honest and viable open source product. Thanks.

Hello charter

;( , sorry, i didn' read the terms of adobe.
I was very happy to have a sollution for this sch*** pdf-problem.
oh, i really hate adobe!!!

because I can't install ps2txt or pdf2html at my webspace, i have to search annother sollution.

could i send the pdf to annother server (of a friend or else) which converts it for me with pdf2html and sends then back to me?
i have not much enought unix-experience, so i'm not sure.

or know anybody a converter for pdf2txt written in perl (cgi)?

annother sollution is, sending it once to adobe and then save it in a database, until its mtime changes. with this, I think adobe could nothing say!!!



P.S. I really like phpDig, but without pdf-support, I could it use only half.

greets
CaCO3

I know nothing about Perl, but a quick search on Google yielded this. If that's not a workable solution for you, just do a search on "pdf to text perl script" (without the quotes).

Hope this helps. :)

Hi. At FooLabs is a mirror to PlanetMirror where you can find compiled versions of pdftotext.

Go to PlanetMirror and download xpdf-3.00-linux.tar.gz (assuming linux is your operating system).

Unzip xpdf-3.00-linux.tar.gz and extract only the pdftotext file (it's already been compiled and is a binary file).

FTP just the pdftotext file in binary mode to your account.

Once the file is over, change its permission to rwxr-xr-x (755 permission).

Now in the PhpDig config file, set the following:
Also be sure to set the following in the PhpDig config file too:
Give PhpDig a whirl and see if it indexes PDF files.

From the admin panel of PhpDig version 1.8.1, just type in the link to a PDF file, and set search depth to zero and set links per to one, to test pdftotext on the one PDF file.

thanx for your tipps charter

I made it with explanations.
(firstly i restored all files from phpdig to its originals) ;)

then i changed the config.php like you said.
for the path, i used /home/ruinelli/public_html/cgi-bin
in which I too moved the file pdftotext (1MB).

But I think, in this dir I can't (don't have the permition) for executing binaries!!!

then I executet the spider with http://testdomain.ruinelli.ch/gpl.pdf
it spiders, but no keyword is putted in the database. ;(


I think, the problem is that the file pdf2txt has to be in a bin-folder like /bin or /usr/local/bin to wich I don't have access.

you can test it under: http://www.ruinelli.ch/phpdig/admin/index.php


@vinyl-junkie:
read the problem @: http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-121054

Thanks for posting that link. I've had the luxury of being lazy and not having to figure out how to index pdf documents for my site. I do have them, but they are strictly for the purpose of a printer friendly version of certain documents which are also in HTML format on my site. ;)

Hi. Make a new directory called binaries and move the pdftotext to this directory. Make sure pdftotext still has 755 permission. Then set the following in the PhpDig config file:

yeeeees, it works!!!!!

in the path, i forgot the filname pdftotxt in the path ;(
but now it works.

thank a lot!!!

I read so many explanations but with none I get it to work.

now, I can send my mod to /dev/null ;)

I think, It would be nice, when the docu for phpdig would be more explaining.

greets CaCO3 [a really happy man with a genial searchmaschin on his page ;) ]