Thanks, Sue: I 'll give it a try. I finally got the xpdf binaries compiled and now I will try and get this set up on my test server. I really hope to finally be able to get these things indexed!
George Kozak Digital Library Specialist Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT) 501 Olin Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8924 -----Original Message----- From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:41 PM To: George Stanley Kozak; Sean Carte Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Question about filter-media hanging George, You should be able to switch to xpdf2text with little effort. It saved us loads of time trying to figure out why filter-media was taking so long to run (ours sometimes ran for days at a time) and it now successfully filters 100% of our pdf documents except for those that are truly corrupt (so it also helps us identify corrupt docs in our repository). You can find installation documentation at https://jira.duraspace.org/secure/attachment/10527/xpdf-filters.html Good luck, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton Software Developer/Database Administrator NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract (757) 224-4074 -----Original Message----- From: George Stanley Kozak [mailto:g...@cornell.edu] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:52 AM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]; Sean Carte Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Question about filter-media hanging Sue and Sean: Thanks very much. I will look into xpdf2text. George Kozak Digital Library Specialist Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT) 501 Olin Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8924 -----Original Message----- From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:54 AM To: Sean Carte; George Stanley Kozak Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Question about filter-media hanging We had lots of problems with filter-media until we changed pdfbox to xpdf2text. Sue Walker-Thornton Software Developer/Database Administrator NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract (757) 224-4074 -----Original Message----- From: Sean Carte [mailto:sean.ca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:27 AM To: George Stanley Kozak Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about filter-media hanging On 10 December 2010 21:22, George Stanley Kozak <g...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Hi. > > > > I am running DSpace 1.6.2. Last week we batch loaded about 1500 PDF files > and this week I loaded about 2300 images (mostly Jpegs). I noticed today > that the thumbnails hadn't been generated by the filter-media program (which > runs nightly). When I went to look, I discovered several filter-media > programs running. It looks like the jobs were hanging up and then the next > night, a new one started up and that one got hung up, etc. > > > > I have tried running filter-media in verbose mode, but I am not seeing > anything in particular that is causing the hang up. No java errors.it just > seems to hang. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should next? > > > > George Kozak Have a look at the suggestions in this thread: http://old.nabble.com/-Dspace-tech--filter-media-hanging-td29158622.html#a29158622 Updating pdfbox worked for me. Sean -- Sean Carte esAL Library Systems Manager +27 72 898 8775 +27 31 373 2490 fax: 0866741254 http://esal.dut.ac.za/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
