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Schmolch
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 11:33 am Post subject: can i search through pdf-files somehow ? |
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hi all!
Does anyone know a way how to search through pdf-files?
I think its not possible, but maybe it is.
The Linux-Acrobat-Reader does not have the searching-functionality, only the windows-version does.
I was just on google.com and they have an advertisment for their google-search-appliance, a linux-computer you can use to search inside a big intranet like you do it on google.com.
This thing can search microsoft office and pdf files as well and so i wonder, how do they do that?
Greetings from germany,
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Johto
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: can i search through pdf-files somehow ? |
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| Schmolch wrote: | hi all!
Does anyone know a way how to search through pdf-files?
I think its not possible, but maybe it is.
The Linux-Acrobat-Reader does not have the searching-functionality, only the windows-version does.
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What do you mean by searching in pdf files? normal text search? Acrobat has normal search function just like in windows...maybe i missed something about your post or something... |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Both acroread and xpdf have text search capability. |
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Schmolch
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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thx guys, you are right, they both can search them.
sorry for claiming acroread cant, it just didnt work when i tried it some weeks ago.
Just out of curiosity, would it be legal to write an opensource-program like adobe acroread for creating / manipulating pdf-documents or is reading them all they allow others?
thx,
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ebichu
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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The command-line utilities supplied with ghostview can convert postscript files to PDF format. GUI programs such as gv can do the same.
I don't know of any programs that allow you to manipulate PDF files like you can with Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader), such as manually adding bookmarks, but there are documentation systems that will generate PDF output with bookmarks, if you want to get your hands dirty learning DocBook (or similar SGML/XML formats), or TeX (or LaTeX etc.) and the tools to process documents in those formats.
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arkane
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Also, for reading I've been using xpdf (since the acroread security issue) and it's great. I don't know if it's GPL or not, never bothered to look. |
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