[ale] Mining PDF's

[Swantje Willms]

Thanks for the question and the answer :-)
This is cool, I wouldn't have thought of it. I'll be able to use this for
my PhD project :-)
In the past (before my Linux days) I used the cumbersome and for this 
project not feasible Adobe email method.

Swantje

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, synco gibraldter wrote:

> 
> 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:
<snip>
> >
> > 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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