[thelist] Re: Search Engine for PDFs only

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 11 16:38:05 CDT 2004


On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 12:46 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a local search engine that specializes in PDF
> searches with capabilities to search the various PDF fields (i.e. 
> title,
> abstract, author)?
>

I've used htdig (htdig.org). However, the htdig product itself doesn't 
read the PDF. Instead, that is done with a separate tool called 
PDF2HTML or something like that. It is a perl script. I'm not sure if 
it can be used in conjunction with other search engines, but may be 
worth a look, or could lead you on to something else.



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