At this stage it is not so much you being given ideas as you supplying
enough information.
What parser are you using? Are you using it directly or via a script such
as parsedoc or doc2html.
You say "25%" occurs in the parser O/P. Is that the output direct from
pdftotext, or from doc2html or what?
--
David Adams
Computing Services
Southampton University
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip E. Varner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Geoff Hutchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [htdig] PDFs, numbers, and percent signs
> Yes, "25%" shows up in the output of the parser. I searched for a word
> near an instance of it in a document, and the long results print out
> the "25%" too. Any other ideas?
>
> Phil
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>
> : At 1:52 PM -0500 1/9/01, Philip E. Varner wrote:
> : >So, I'm guessing this is either a problem with the percent sign
(25%,etc),
> : >or not having _all_ words indexed.
> :
> : I'd run a PDF through your external parser/converter and take a look
> : at the output. Are you seeing 25% (or whatever) showing up there?
> :
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