[ale] Mining PDF's

[synco gibraldter]

there is a utility... info at:
www.linux4smallbiz.com/Members/Eugene%20von/
poweruser/page3/portalarticle_view

also, `strings file.pdf|grep /Title` seems to give some keywords.

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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I need to implement a search functionality that is able to
> mine a url directory structure which contains pdf's. I was
> hoping that someone knew of an opensource project that
> already has done some of the grunt work otherwise, I'm open
> to ideas as to how to accomplish this task.
>
> In mining the pdfs, the search functionality needs to grab
> a title, file size, a summary and relevance based on a text
> search. (i.e. - if I search for 'dog', all pdfs with the
> phrase 'dog' in it would be returned. )  I'm just not sure
> how to get the text out of a pdf.
>
> Anywho, thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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