[wplug] pdf text search

[Doug Green]

Thanks! It looks like I can get pdftotext with the Xpdf package source. 
Ironically, a search of "pdftotext os x" turned up this webpage where 
they are SELLING (??!!) this functionality in OS X:

http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=20030605100251404

Good thing I know how to configure, make and install from source! I 
won't begrudge anyone from making a buck, but it seems a little 
unethical to do so on someone else's open source project... ah well, 
guess it was happening in BeOS circles for 10 years...

-Doug

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 09:35  PM, Tim Quinlan wrote:

> I've done this with htdig on an intranet search engine.
> http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.9
>
>  It uses some utilities from xpdf, so you may just be able to use
> pdftotext on its own.
>
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:16, Doug Green wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a way to do keyword searching within .pdf file
>> directories? I keep digital files (.pdf files) of the journal articles
>> I have read. When I want to reference something, it would be nice to 
>> be
>> able to query the library with a keyword search. I have Acrobat (full
>> version), but it won't descend into directories... and that wouldn't 
>> be
>> a very sporting topic for wplug anyways. Any ideas??
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Doug
>>
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