Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >
>
> Another suggestion: PDFMiner
>
> http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/
>
> Hopefully it will soon be packaged.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584555
Thanks.
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On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
If poppler, for example, doesn't render *exactly* but searches
/rapidly/, then you could search using poppler and "read" using
Acroread.
Alternatively, install poppler-utils for it's pdftohtml. Certainly it
won't be perfect,
> And so they market it heavily. Thus the Web sites that say "To read
> this you need Acroread", not "To read this you need a PDF viewer".
I try to complain to each one of those websites about the fact that
their site is factually wrong. I encourage every supporter of Free
Software or Open Sourc
Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200
> Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>
>
> Don't know how useful it is, but I recently noticed that pdfgrep has
> been added to Sid:
>
> $ apt-cache show pdfgrep
> Package: pdfgrep
>
> ...
>
> Description: search in pdf files for strings matching a regu
John Hasler wrote:
> Merciadri Luca writes:
>
>> But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybody
>> to use its client.
>>
>
> No. They want everybody who creates "content" to buy Acrobat. Giving
> away Acroread is just part of the marketing thereof.
>
You're ri
Merciadri Luca writes:
> But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybody
> to use its client.
No. They want everybody who creates "content" to buy Acrobat. Giving
away Acroread is just part of the marketing thereof.
> Then, why don't they make something more valuable?
On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200
Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
> do not know
Okay. I take account of it.
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/30/2010 10:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
>>> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
>> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
>> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
>
On 05/30/2010 10:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, t
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On 05/30/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Well, if you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, complain to Adobe that it's
slow and hope they fix it.
But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybod
On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
do not know that my keyword is sim
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Well, if you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, complain to Adobe that it's
> slow and hope they fix it.
But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybody
to use its client. Then, why don't they make something more valuable?
Habitually, if you want someth
On 05/29/2010 04:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was
not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using
free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose
range of compatibility with the PDF s
On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
> do not know that my
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Ron Johnson writes:
> On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
>>>
>>> Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers?
>> As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if i
Yes, why not. But if they are in PDF format, how can I (re)structure
them better? Thanks.
Erik Heil wrote:
> Hi there.
> I believe that I have some sollutions to your problems. First of all,
> you need to see whether or not your documentts are in some kind of
> structured format. if they are, say
Hi there.
I believe that I have some sollutions to your problems. First of all,
you need to see whether or not your documentts are in some kind of
structured format. if they are, say DocBookXML, or something similar,
you may be able to find a quick solution to the searching problem. if
the documen
On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers?
As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was
not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using
free i
k
Reply" feature.
---Erik
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Heil
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:15:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
To: luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be
Hi.
What you may have to look at is the possibility of a document
management system.
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
>
> Wow. How big is that?
Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias!
>
>> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given mo
On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
Wow. How big is that?
other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
do not
Hi,
I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document,
it takes 5
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