> > > See
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.htdig.org/pub/htdig/contrib/parsers/doc2html.tar.gz
> > >
> > > for the latest and fanciest incarnation of these.
> >
> > I found it out that was doing to much things I didn't need. Why should I
> > use the same script for different types when htdig is able to
> > choose the right one.
>
> It depends on what you're indexing. Sure, for PDFs, they are usually
tagged
> unambiguously by the server, so htdig can pick the right converter/parser.
> The trick is the .doc files, which may be WP, Word, RTF, or something
else,
> so having one script that looks at both the "magic number" at the start of
> the document as well as the server's returned Content-Type header can be a
> real benefit.
>
Doc2html may be over the top for those only interested in Adobe documents,
but the tar file does include a pdf2html.pl Perl script which uses pdftotext
and pdfinfo, and can be used independently of doc2html.pl. It might be a
good starting point for someone developing their own PDF converter.
David Adams
Southampton University
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