From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 03:50:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8288C106564A for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360958FC0C for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:50:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so4910794qyk.3 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8XJtY5Kt0JawBtq5dKHx6wkN6/I0PjVgojBquP4abzM=; b=UQbmW934yaF2COJoayUvtnAhwARljPIxyh/cnXjaY6HWley7TYjNY4AMZQn2CU8WcF VsA8DWPVXJWyKUDtyrNHmaqCoHmzPnw+VhFB7rrZheRu+YzdSpDNNM7R4+K2HPy72psI E92uNdpEeZdqzLnfxaRMEqNvnlbyCCMaFRDtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=jSoNdox/72TR36IDPJ+4Btxgfp71jTASQLlvY064iqvMNATz0YwlurxO9TRmM11Ccq S9R8WXn+0o/MGNh/1zNUg+fSnhvWU+/OZGVZ6Ec2VBr9fFArK5Ad2chlhcvhkq2O4Rjm O7a0GnU+Q1iy3/nqvjHANtg67SSIqfItSjIQA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.45.205 with SMTP id g13mr7588279qaf.170.1244519456381; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906090321.n593LnOa088398@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20090609023702.EF4D2BED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <200906090321.n593LnOa088398@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:50:56 -0500 Message-ID: From: Lord Of Hyphens To: Olivier Nicole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:50:58 -0000 On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I > > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the > > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from > > within PDFs? > > pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think > > Olivier > > A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. -- "Nothing unreal exists." - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics.