Looking For PDF Search Program

[Robert Atkinson]

Does anyone know of a search engine/program that can find text in PDF files, and will run on VMS?

[Antoniov.]

Search here
http://decwarch.free.fr/pspdf.html

Antonio Vigliotti

[Robert Atkinson]

Antoniov - I hunted all through the Ghostscript sites, but couldn't find anything relating to a search facility.

I also hunted for an email address to pose the question, but still came up blank.

Could you point me in the right direction for either. I don't want to install such a large package if it doesn't suit my needs.

Cheers, Robert.

[Martin Vorlaender]

Sorry for answering so late.

My port of ht://Dig to VMS can search PDFs. It uses pdftotext and pdfinfo from the xpdf package.

See http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/htdig/

[Robert Atkinson]

Martin - thanks for the links, all very usefull.

One question though; can HTDig search the PDF files without extracting the data?

If not, then it would be too cumbersome to use in my application.

Any other suggestions you can give to allow me to search a bunch of PDF files quickly would be very much appreciated.

Cheers, Robert.

[Martin Vorlaender]

Robert,

sorry, but no. I know of no utility that searches PDF files "natively" on VMS, i.e. without extracting the text.

[labadie_1]

Swish-E does it.

But as you are a subscriber of the Wasd mailing list, you already know that :-)

[Martin Vorlaender]

No, it doesn't. Quoting from http://swish-e.org/current/docs/searchdoc.html :

"Swish-e can internally only parse HTML, XML and TXT (text) files by default"

Same philosophy as ht://Dig.

[Martin Vorlaender]

Sorry, that link was bogus. Here is the correct one:
http://swish-e.org/current/docs/INSTALL.html#Creating_PDF_and_Postscript_documentation

[labadie_1]

Sorry Martin, but I would tend to disagree, a post today in the Wasd mailing list explains how to do it.

And when you search in the Vms documentation at
http://pi-net.dyndns.org/cgiplus-bin/search

you find sometimes Pdf documents.

So it works

:-)