| From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alexander(dot)Bagerman(at)cognizant(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Indexing MS/Open Office and PDF documents |
| Date: | 2012-03-15 21:17:47 |
| Message-ID: | 4F625C7B.7090302@archonet.com |
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On 15/03/12 21:12, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 01:57 +0530, Alexander(dot)Bagerman(at)cognizant(dot)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
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