Re: searching non plain text files
| From: | Tim-Hinnerk Heuer | Date: | Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:14:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: searching non plain text files | ||
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Way back when, I was using pdftotext and other various doc to text
converters to copy the text into a second text file which I then indexed
with sphinx search. You can nowadays index quite well also with PostgreSQL
or maybe even MySQL.
good luck!
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:20 Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net wrote:
> Hello;
>
> Can anyone point me to instruction/advice about
> opening and reading files that are not plain text:
>
> word processing docs, pdf, ps, image files,
> even complied code.
>
> I am writing a search function to search file systems
> and don't know a lot about the formatting of non plain
> text files.
>
> The immediate concern is line breaks in word
> processing docs, pdf and ps files.
>
> Then detecting compiled code files so I can
> leave them alone. This type of file might not
> have a suffix to consider.
>
> Then the various image files that might be
> encountered.
>
> Even suffixes aren't a guarantee of the content.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff K.
>