That's an incorrect way to POST PDF files (though maybe the latest work on post.jar makes it possible, but would require additional parameters).
In order to index PDF files, you'll need to script an iteration over all files and POST them in (or stream them however is most reasonable for your environment) using the techniques described here: <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler> Erik On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:26 , McGibbney, Lewis John wrote: > Hi list, > > Was attempting to check out the VelocityResponseWriter before I progress with > customising it for my own usage, I seem to have opened a can of worms when > posting documents to Solr. Using simple post command I get the following > output. > > lewis@lewis-01:~/Downloads/apache-solr-1.4.1/example/exampledocs$ java -jar > post.jar *.pdf > SimplePostTool: version 1.2 > SimplePostTool: WARNING: Make sure your XML documents are encoded in UTF-8, > other encodings are not currently supported > SimplePostTool: POSTing files to http://localhost:8983/solr/update.. > SimplePostTool: POSTing file > technical_handbook_2010_domestic_section_0_general.pdf > SimplePostTool: FATAL: Solr returned an error: > Unexpected_character__code_37_in_prolog_expected___at_rowcol_unknownsource_11 > > In some projects (E.g. Nutch) I am aware that the distribution does not come > with alll jar's and these are required to be downloaded separately, I know > this is not the case with Solr though. I have also successfully committed a > host of .pdf to Solr recently so I know that this is working fine. Checking > my Solr logs nothing seems to be out of place! > > Has anyone seen anything similar? > > Thanks Lewis > > > > Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number > SC021474 > > Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the > Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009. > http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html > > Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career > Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland > partners. > http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html
