ASPSeek will also present "text version" of beer.pdf to be viewed (in the place where "cached" link usually is), much like as Google does, so you can see the result of conversion. Excerpts are also supported.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > no no, > > the external converter is started from aspseek during the index process when aspseek >finds a pdf file. > so in your case: > > when aspseek indexes www.crazy.com and finds beer.pdf it starts the converter. the >converter reads the pdf-document convert it to txt/html. now aspseek indexes this >export. > > no your users can search also in pdf documents. so when "beer" is in beer.bdf, >aspseek will list the link to beer.pdf as a result and even displays the short >extract. your users now can click on the link and acrobat reader opens to display the >pdf-file. > > so external converter means a helper programme for apseek to index pdf-documents. > > Markus Rietzler > * kommunikation & online service > * RZF NRW > * Tel: 0211.4572-130 > > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Diego Montalvo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2002 16:55 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [aseek-users] ASPSeek - PDF / RTF > > Kir, > > I am somewhat confused, so ASPSeek will crawl and > index .PDF and such files, but will not present them > as .html? Therefore I need a external converter? > > Or does an external converter first convert, then I > run ASPSeek? > > example: I want to index "www.crazy.com/beer.pdf" i > simply use ASPSeek, to retreive words from "beer.pdf" > but then I mst use an external program to view in > html? > > do you have a link to such a search engine using > ASPSeek with external converters? > > Diego > > --- Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Diego Montalvo wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > In the ASPSeek Manual pages there is a mention > > that > > > ASPSeek understands PDF, RTF formats with help of > > an > > > external program, what program is that? I would > > like > > > to embed it into ASPSeek. > > > > There's no need to embed. Manual talks about > > External Converters, > > described in > > http://www.aspseek.org/man/aspseek.conf.5.html#lbAM > > So as long as you have program that can convert, > > say, pdf to html, > > you can index pdf documents with aspseek. > > > > Good ps to text (or html) converter is here: > > http://www.nzdl.org/html/prescript.html > > There are also links to other such tools. > > > > As for converter from rtf or doc format, I know of > > word2x: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/ > > antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html > > unrtf: http://www.geocities.com/tuorfa/unrtf.html > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kir.vtx.ru/ ICQ 7551596 > > Phone +7 903 6722750 > > Hi, I'm a signature virus: copy me to your > > .signature to help me spread! > > -- > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kir.vtx.ru/ ICQ 7551596 Phone +7 903 6722750 Hi, I'm a signature virus: copy me to your .signature to help me spread! --
