Re: Indexing MS/Open Office and PDF documents - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Indexing MS/Open Office and PDF documents
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Msg-id 4F625C7B.7090302@archonet.com
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In response to Re: Indexing MS/Open Office and PDF documents  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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On 15/03/12 21:12, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 01:57 +0530, Alexander.Bagerman@cognizant.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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