PDF files handling

[Andre Garzia]

Bryan,
PDF spec allows very different PDF internals from file to file, a good trick
is, make a Rev stack that calls an pdf2html converter tool from command
line, then processing the HTML files is easier and since you know which html
originated from which pdf file you simply map them back later.

at least, that's how I'd solve it.
or pdf2txt...

Andre

On 7/4/07, Bryan McCormick <bryan at deepfoo.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> This may have been answered long ago. Maybe not. What I have is a
> collection now approaching thousands of academic papers. I would like to
> be able to read the titles of these papers (usually nicely isolated on
> page 1) into rev and associate the title with the file name. In other
> words, build a simple topic to file index. I have no idea how to even
> start this in Rev. Or even if it is all that good an idea.
>
> Why do I want to do this?
>
> First, so that the papers can be more easily cataloged.
>
> Second, once cataloged, I want to be able to do my own annotations and
> what not. The plan actually is to generate a catalog page in HTML so
> that people in the office can browse the papers more easily on the
> server share.
>
> Oh, and I would prefer not to have to run another server process to
> index them, etc.
>
> Can Rev do such a thing (easily) or am I destined to pick up the light
> version of Google's indexing server?
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