Well, populating the database is a gimmie, but for parsing the PDF document, have you examined all of the PDF modules on CPAN<http://search.cpan.org/search?query=pdf&mode=all>to see if they can do what you are asking?
Regards, Jeff On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Stuart White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a bunch of documents that I need to import into a proprietary > database. The database has a table with key words, specifically, names of > people. This database software will import documents, but will not search > those documents for these key words, and then let me know which documents > talk about which people and on which page. Specifically, I would like to > see in the "referenced in document" field of the record for Joe Smith, a > number that represents all the documents Joe Smith is referenced in. Then, > that field is linked to another table, a Documents table, that shows me the > names of each document Joe Smith is referenced in, and the page number. My > database program already does this second part, but I have to manually do > the first part, the reading of the document, marking in the Joe Smith record > that he is in that document. I prefer not to do that. I still have to read > the documents anyway, and I still would have to read them for proper > nouns that refer to Joe Smith, or Mr. Smith, or Joe, but I'd like for > some of my work to be done by a program. > > That said, can perl search on a document for these key words, and then > populate my database in that fashion? The database software I am using is > called CaseMap. I recognize that I might need to find a module for CaseMap > so that perl can talk to it (at least, I think that's what I would need to > do). > > Second, I'd have to at least open my Learning Perl book from 5 years ago > and go through the first 5 or 6 chapters I imagine, to re-introduce myself > to perl. With that said, how difficult might this be to do, (in hours) if > it can be done, by a non-programmer that is willing to learn and once > dabbled with perl? Better yet, how long might it take you (and please state > your experience level with perl) to do this? > > > Thanks for reading. -stuart > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
