Re: Indexing MS/Open Office and PDF documents

On 15/03/12 21:12, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 01:57 +0530, Alexander.Bagerman@cognizant.com

>> We have
>> hard time identifying MS/Open Office and PDF parsers to index stored
>> documents and make them available for text searching.

> The first step is to find a library that can parse such documents, or
> convert them to a format that can be parsed.

I've used docx2txt and pdf2txt and friends to produce text files that I
then index during the import process. An external script runs the whole
process. All I cared about was extracting raw text though, this does
nothing to identify headings etc.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd