Google Mail Calendar Documents Reader Web more »
Recently Visited Groups | Help | Sign in
Google Groups Home
comp.os.linux.misc
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Searching within large PDF files
Options
There are currently too many topics in this group that display first. To make this topic appear first, remove this option from another topic.
There was an error processing your request. Please try again.
flag
   1 message - Collapse all  -  Translate all to Translated (View all originals)
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Follow-up To:
Add Cc | Add Follow-up to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers that you hear
 
Peter Flynn  
View profile   Translate to Translated (View Original)
 More options 2 Nov, 23:19
Newsgroups: comp.text.pdf, comp.os.linux.misc
From: Peter Flynn <peter.n...@m.silmaril.ie>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:19:53 +0000
Local: Mon 2 Nov 2009 23:19
Subject: Re: Searching within large PDF files
Reply | Reply to author | Forward | Print | Individual message | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

jka wrote:
> Hello,

> I have a lot of books in PDF format and searching within these files
> with Adobe reader goes terribly slow. Indexing seems to be the solution,
> but the indexers I find don t seem to be connected to a viewer that
> jumps to the corresponding offset in the pdf file. What is the best
> solution?

I posted a short script in c.t.p to do this last month (see "Re: Can
Results From A Search By Adobe Reader 9 Or Another Software Be
Exported?" message-id <7j9s0lF34o81...@mid.individual.net>) which can
give you page and paragraph number.

xpdf (and maybe others) can take a page-number argument after the
filename and will open the document at that page. The script could
easily be adapted to call xpdf with the page number of a reference.

Be aware that "page number" in both the script and in xpdf means the
sequential page number of the document starting at 1 regardless of
whatever digits are printed on the page (because the PDF documents
doesn't know they are page numbers). Unless you use some sophisticated
PDF-creation software that adds "targets" to the document, it isn't
possible to open to the "page number" that is *printed* on a page.

///Peter


    Reply    Reply to author    Forward  
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message, you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
End of messages
« Back to Discussions « Newer topic     Older topic »

Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2009 Google