On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:44:49AM +0000, Andrew Marlow wrote: > Now that I have loaded a few PDFs into my DSpace repo, I am wondering how to > enable full text searching. The PDFs happen to be in a form that means they > cannot be searched directly. So when I search in DSpace I get no results
Do you mean they are bags of page images (that is, scans from paper documents or film) rather than machine-readable text? DSpace won't be able to index that. You need flat text for the indexer. If your PDFs *do* contain machine-readable text, then there is a tool in the [DSpace]/bin directory that can extract plain text to an alternate bundle, which the indexer will look for. In fact, bin/filter-media will by default invoke the indexer when it has finished. See Architecture | Application Layer | Media Filters (in the 1.4.x documentation) for information on how to run the filter tool. Another poster has advised on ways to make scanned documents in PDFs machine-readable. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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