The converter script must produce its output as STDOUT, not as a file. David Adams Southampton University
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bley, Josef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:57 AM Subject: [htdig] Integration of external parser for OCR-Software > Hi, > > we work with Htdig 3.1.5 running on a Solaris 8 workstation. > We want to integrate an external parser for indexing Tiff-raster files with > the ocr-Software OCRshop from vividata. > We have made following entry in htdig.conf: > external_parsers: image/tiff->text/plain /ya/cadim/htdig/bin/tif2text > > tif2text is a shell-script, which starts the OCR-software. the output of the > OCR-software is a plain-textfile with extension txt in the htdig temporary > directory. > > Following happens: > When rundig starts indexing of a Tiff-File, it starts the OCR-software, > creates the textfile, but after this, htdig tries to index only the > tiff-file and not the text-file. > The result is, that no words are in the htdig database. > Our goal is , that hdtig should index the txt-file instead of the tiff-file. > How can we achieve this ? > > > Best regards > > Josef Bley > > > > MTU Aero Engines > > Abteilung FIE > > Tel.: 089/1489 4195 > > Fax.: 089/1489 97243 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe > FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
