Re: Importing text file into a TEXT field - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adriana Alfonzo
Subject Re: Importing text file into a TEXT field
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Msg-id 49183E7F.7080200@venalum.com.ve
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In response to Re: Importing text file into a TEXT field  (Bruno Lavoie <bruno.lavoie@gmail.com>)
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no quiero recibir mas correos de estos temas en donde no estoy incluida,
gracias.....

Bruno Lavoie escribió:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> nice tool!
>
> Thanks for your help... For batch and automation purposes, I've done a
> small script... (check out my last post in the thread few minutes ago)
>
> Bruno Lavoie
>
>
> Thomas Kellerer a écrit :
>> Bruno Lavoie, 07.11.2008 19:20:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The intent is to use pdftotext and store the resulting text in
>>> datbase for full text search purposes... I'm trying to develop a
>>> mini content server where I'll put pdf documents to make it searchable.
>>>
>>> Generally, PDFs are in size of 500 to 3000 pages resulting in text
>>> from 500kb to 2megabytes...
>>>
>>> I'm also looking at open source projects like Alfresco if it can
>>> serve with ease to my purpose... Anyone use this one? Comments are
>>> welcome.
>>
>> If you are not bound to "native" Postgres tools, you might want to
>> take a look at my SQL Workbench/J (http://www.sql-workbench.net)
>>
>> It can insert the contents of files (located on the client) into
>> tables. You can either do this using an extended SQL syntax:
>> UPDATE pdf_table  SET text_content = {$clobfile=c:/temp/convertet.txt
>> encoding=utf8}
>> WHERE id = 42;
>>
>> (of course this statement can not be run with psql)
>>
>> You could also bulk-upload several files at one using my flat-file
>> import.
>> (http://www.sql-workbench.net/manual/command-import.html)
>>
>> Assuming the table has two columns (id, text_content), the flat file
>> would look like this:
>>
>> id|text_content
>> 1|content_1.txt
>> 2|content_2.txt
>> 3|content_3.txt
>>
>> and the import would store the content of the files not the literl
>> 'content_1.txt' in the column text_content.
>>
>> You can either insert or update the content, depending on your needs.
>> You could even store the orginal pdf file if the table contains a
>> bytea column for the blob data.
>>
>> Contact me offline (contact information on my homepage) if you need
>> help.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>
>

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