| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Amine Tengilimoglu <aminetengilimoglu(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How to read an external pdf file from postgres? |
| Date: | 2022-01-12 11:25:18 |
| Message-ID: | 08628ac8-0b69-391c-3387-60188a9b1882@enterprisedb.com |
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On 12.01.22 12:16, Amine Tengilimoglu wrote:
> I want to read an external pdf file from postgres. pdf file will
> exist on the disk. postgres only know the disk full path as metadata. Is
> there any software or extension that can be used for this? Or do we have
> to develop software for it? Or what is the best approach for this? I'd
> appreciate it if anyone with experience could make suggestions.
You could write a function in PL/Perl or PL/Python to open and read the
file and process the PDF data, using some third-party module that surely
exists somewhere.
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