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Old 11-26-2003, 07:45 AM   #1
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PDF indexing

Hi,

I have a problem indexing pdf files.
I have tried both the pstotext and pdftotext binaries.

Both binairies work fine on the commandline

Using pdftotext like this in the configfile
define('PHPDIG_INDEX_PDF',true);
define('PHPDIG_PARSE_PDF','/usr/local/bin/pdftotext');
define('PHPDIG_OPTION_PDF','-q');

All pdf files are saved as txt files inphpdig/Admin/temp (shouldn't htdig delete these automaticly?) but still no text from the pdfs can be found in the search form.

What can be the cause of this?

I' started with 1.6.2 and now I'm using 1.6.4 but both have the same problem. This is on mac os x 10.2.6

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Old 11-26-2003, 07:54 AM   #2
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Hi. Delete anything in the temp directory, and then try setting the following in the config file:

define('PHPDIG_PDF_EXTENSION','.txt');
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Old 11-26-2003, 08:21 AM   #3
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Thank you for your fast reply!

Yes it were .txt files and I deleted them and changed the config file as you suggested.

I still seem to have the same problem though.

The files in temp are for example named: 14377172.tmp.txt

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Old 11-26-2003, 08:38 AM   #4
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Hi. That looks right. Hmm, is '/usr/local/bin/pdftotext' the correct path to the pdftotext binary?
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Old 11-26-2003, 09:36 AM   #5
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Yes that is the correct path, I thought those txtfiles where created by pdftotext and that they were a proof that pdftotext works?

Could it have something yo do with character encoding? The tmp.txt files are ISO-8859-1 encoded and MacOS uses the MacRoman characterset.

Haven't solved correct encoding in the htm either but there it basicly works.

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Old 11-26-2003, 10:27 AM   #6
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Oh, silly me.

It looks like the below chunk of code from robot_functions.php may be failing for you. If you echo out $retval (0 is success, -1 is failure) what does it give? Also, just to be sure, is define('PHPDIG_PDF_EXTENSION','.txt'); set with .txt (including the period)?
PHP Code:
    if ($usetool) { // does this
        
rename($tempfile1,$tempfile2); // does this
        
exec($command,$result,$retval); // does this
        
unlink($tempfile2); // does this
        
if (!$retval) { // hmm
             // the replacement if š is for unbreaking spaces
             // returned by catdoc parsing msword files
             // and '0xAD' "tiret quadratin" returned by pstotext
             // in iso-8859-1
             // Adjust with your encoding and/or your tools
             
if ((is_array($result)) && (count($result) > 0)) {
                
$f_handler fopen($tempfile1,'wb');
                
fwrite($f_handler,str_replace('š',' ',str_replace(chr(0xad),'-',implode(' ',$result))));
                
fclose($f_handler);
             }
        }
        else {
              return array(
'tempfile'=>0,'tempfilesize'=>0);
        }
    } 
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Old 11-26-2003, 02:07 PM   #7
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Sorry for the delay, I couldn't test right away. I had forgotten the period in '.txt'. Now that I have the period the temp dir is not full of files after an attempt to index anymore.

But indexing of pdf's ends after the fifth pdf when I try to index a directory with 130 pdf's. I get 7 files, one index (html), the index of the parent directory (html) and 5 pdf indexed. The directory "text_content" contains 7 txt files (1.txt, 2.txt etc), the first 6 are readable but last file "7.txt" is full of unreadable junk, only the first line is readable and then it continues with "° ¢£§! ¢£ ©¢ §£ ¶ ¶ ¶ "3 # $ &' •• ß ® ®¶ ©¢ ¢£ %
@3 @ 3F )01)12A021B2" etc.

I didn't succeed with the debugging line, I tried:

PHP Code:
  if ($usetool) {
        
rename($tempfile1,$tempfile2);
        
exec($command,$result,$retval);
        
unlink($tempfile2);
        echo 
"[h1]$retval[H1]";
            if (!
$retval) {
             
// the replacement if ö is for unbreaking spaces
             // returned by catdoc parsing msword files
             // and '0xAD' "tiret quadratin" returned by pstotext
             // in iso-8859-1
             // Adjust with your encoding and/or your tools
             
if ((is_array($result)) && (count($result) > 0)) {
                
$f_handler fopen($tempfile1,'wb');
                
fwrite($f_handler,str_replace('ö',' ',str_replace(chr(0xad),'-',implode(' ',$result))));
                
fclose($f_handler);
             }
        }
        else {
              return array(
'tempfile'=>0,'tempfilesize'=>0);
        }
    } 
but never saw a "0" or an "1", does that mean they are 0 all the time?

/thanks Aryan

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Old 11-26-2003, 02:50 PM   #8
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Hi. Is there a link from your pages to each of the 130 pdf files? PhpDig won't find them on it's own unless there are links to them. As you can now find search results from some pdf files, it looks like $retval contains success. From the man page of pdftotext version 1.0.1 is the following. Perhaps that is why the seventh page is messed.

BUGS
Some PDF files contain fonts whose encodings have been mangled
beyond recognition. There is no way (short of OCR) to extract
text from these files.
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Old 11-26-2003, 03:10 PM   #9
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Hi,

it is a normal apache file listing that I use as url to index (1 level) file listing. So all pdfs are linked.

You're totally right about the bug in pdftotext, when I tried the same pdf file in the command line I get the same junk text.

Still why does it stop indexing after this file?

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Old 11-26-2003, 03:37 PM   #10
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Hmm, good question. I'm not sure of the inner workings of the pdftotext bug. Maybe when the bug is encountered it stops processes that were trying to run it. What happens when you remove that file from the listing? How far does PhpDig get then?
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Old 11-27-2003, 01:44 AM   #11
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Thank you very much Carter for all help and support!!

Deleting the suspected file did help and all PDF's in the directory are eventually indexed. But when I deleted all text files and databases and tried it again with the suspected pdf it worked as well! Now I'm a bit confused, maybe I just didn't give it enough time to index?

As for the debugging test
PHP Code:
_echo "[h1]$retval[H1]"
stupid me tried it in the wrong copy of robot_functions.php (!) sorry.

Now all seems fine but I stumble on another issue. If I do a search on a common keyword I always get only 5 hits!

I also have a problem with the high ASCII characters for example å, ä, ö that are common in Swedish. Searching for words containing those characters doesn't work. I think I have to dig into the htmlentities function because that doesn't work well with MacRoman character set, or is there anything else that I should look into?

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Old 11-27-2003, 07:51 AM   #12
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Hi. Maybe it's a r****m bug? Anyway, glad it's working now. For the numder of results, just change define('NUMBER_OF_RESULTS_PER_SITE',5); in the config file. For the å, ä, ö characters, are you using iso-8859-1? If you search on a word with å, ä, ö in it, PhpDig should use a, a, o when it does its internal search. Can you post a word that doesn't work and a link to your search?
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