Re: How to read an external pdf file from postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: How to read an external pdf file from postgres?
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In response to How to read an external pdf file from postgres?  (Amine Tengilimoglu <aminetengilimoglu@gmail.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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