From: "shams khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ht://Dig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gilles Detillieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [htdig] using conv_doc.pl to index MS Word documents
> > Hi, > > I've tried doc2html.pl, but am also having problems indexing word documents. > I have the following line in the doc2html.pl script: > > #version of catdoc for Word6, Word7 & Word97 files: > my $CATDOC = '/usr/local/bin'; $CATDOC should be the full path name of the catdoc executable, not the directory containing it. > > And, I have the catdoc package installed (with the catdoc binaries in > /isr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib) > > After changing the line in htdig.conf to use doc2html.pl, I get the > following error messages rundig tries to index word documents: > > http://10.5.1.35/sme/micro/test.doc: ! UNABLE to convert size = > 11264 > > any suggestions on what could be wrong ? > > Also, is there any benefit of using doc2html.pl over conv_doc.pl to index > .pdf documents for htDig. ? > > I have been using conv_doc.pl and it has been giving me very satisfactory > results, I did try doc2html.pl as well to see if there was any difference... > however with doc2html.pl I found that less pdf documents were indexed and > all the excerpts on htDig search results were garbled. > > (e.g. 0000000016 00000 n 0000001025 00000 n 0000001337 00000 n 0000001543 > 00000 n 0000001750 00000 n 0000001789 00000 n 0000002255 00000 n 0000002455 > 00000 n 0000002643 00000 n 0000003042 00000 n 0000003064 00000 n 00000). > > Thanks for your help, > > Shams > The pdf2html.pl script that comes with doc2html uses pdfinfo to get the document title, subject and keywords. I don't think that conv_doc.pl does as much. If you are getting inferior results with doc2html.pl then your first step should be to check over your installation of doc2html.pl and pfd2html.pl very carefully. -- David Adams Information Systems Services Southampton University ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ 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
