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Carlos Revillo	Thursday 04 May 2006 4:02:51 am hi. i'm trying to index pdf documents i've uploaded through admin interface, but i cannot make it work. I've installed pdftotex in my server and its working. Next, i've created a file called ezpdftotext with this content. #!/bin/sh #ezpdftotext script pdftotext $1 - and i've created a file (binaryfile.ini.append.php) in my /settings/override folder with this content. # Here you can add handlers for new datatypes. [HandlerSettings] MetaDataExtractor[text/plain]=plaintext MetaDataExtractor[application/pdf]=pdf # The path to the text extraction tool to use to # fetch the information in PDF files [PDFHandlerSettings] TextExtractionTool=ezpdftotext I've also made file searchable in my class. If i upload a plain txt file all is well. Ez read words of my file and do the things needed in ezsearch_word and related tables, but nothing happens when i upload a pdf file. Any help would be very appreciated. thanks.
Nicolas Frey	Thursday 02 April 2009 3:18:15 am Hi, I have the same problem. Someone have a solution ? I'm using ezpublish 4.1. My binaryfile.ini [HandlerSettings] MetaDataExtractor[text/plain]=ezplaintext MetaDataExtractor[application/pdf]=ezpdf MetaDataExtractor[application/msword]=ezword [PDFHandlerSettings] TextExtractionTool=pdftotext.bat My pdftotext.bat pdftotext -enc UTF-8 %1 In my class, I was check "searchable" for file. If I look in \var\site\storage\original\application after launch updatesearchindex.php or upload file, a text-file was create with the good content. 6fb8fdcc583cf155d3aeb82e289c0b31.pdf 6fb8fdcc583cf155d3aeb82e289c0b31.txt In the search result, only text files are shown.. An idea ? Thanks. Nicolas Frey (2ST)
Damien Pobel	Thursday 02 April 2009 3:56:17 am Hi, You should try to enable DebugOutput and DebugRedirection to see if something went wrong. In addition, I think you should put the full path to your script in binaryfile.ini.append.php and perhaps try to launch your script on the original PDF file in a shell to check if it's able to extract the text from your PDF, with some weird PDF files, sometimes it fails. Damien Planet eZ Publish.fr : http://www.planet-ezpublish.fr Certification : http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/372448 Publications about eZ Publish : http://pwet.fr/tags/keywords/weblog/ez_publish
Nicolas Frey	Thursday 02 April 2009 6:38:55 am I found the problem. class eZPDFParser { function parseFile( $fileName ) { $binaryINI = eZINI::instance( 'binaryfile.ini' ); $textExtractionTool = $binaryINI->variable( 'PDFHandlerSettings', 'TextExtractionTool' ); // save the buffer contents $buffer = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); // fetch the module printout ob_start(); passthru( "$textExtractionTool $fileName" ); $metaData = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); // fill the buffer with the old values ob_start(); print( $buffer ); return $metaData; } } This class runs the script contained in "binaryfile.ini" and retrieves the output stream for the search indexing. There is no help in pdftotext, which tells how to make a direct result. After some research, I found this command: PDFtoText.exe filename.pdf - Nicolas Frey (2ST)
Johann Lemaitre	Thursday 09 April 2009 7:57:09 am Hi, I followed all points specified in this topic. So I changed my binary.ini file and it looks like : [PDFHandlerSettings] TextExtractionTool=/var/www/ez/xpdf-3.02/xpdf/pdftotext -enc UTF-8 Just for a test, I have added a dash "-" after le filename in the file "ezpdfparser.php" passthru( "$textExtractionTool $fileName -" ); This dash modify the pdf conversion because now I have no generated text file (Everything is send to the stdout). Finally, my search result with ezFind 2.0.0 is always empty. Could you help me ? thanks Johann