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Boris Epstein

28 Sep 2007 28 Sep '07

3:34 p.m.

Hello everyone, Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie here, so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how does one go about that? Thanks a lot for all your help. Cheers, -- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

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Mathias Conradt

28 Sep 28 Sep

5:31 p.m.

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With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie here, so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how does one go about that?

Boris Epstein

6:45 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] PDF searching via Mediawiki

Thanks... Though this Lucene looks like a whole monster system in and of itself. On 9/28/07, Mathias Conradt <mathias.conradt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie

here,

so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how

does

one go about that?

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

rainman＠sbb.co.yu

7:24 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] PDF searching via Mediawiki

Lucene can in principle index pdf documents, but this extensions is (still) not doing it. r. Boris Epstein wrote:

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Thanks... Though this Lucene looks like a whole monster system in and of itself. On 9/28/07, Mathias Conradt <mathias.conradt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie

here,

so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how

does

one go about that?

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Boris Epstein

7:31 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] PDF searching via Mediawiki

Well, Lucene also looks like a total overkill for the purpose. pdftotext extracts text from PDF files; all I need is to tie it in to the search engine Mediawiki already provides for text files. On 9/28/07, rainman(a)sbb.co.yu <rainman(a)sbb.co.yu> wrote:

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Lucene can in principle index pdf documents, but this extensions is (still) not doing it. r. Boris Epstein wrote:

Thanks... Though this Lucene looks like a whole monster system in and of itself. On 9/28/07, Mathias Conradt <mathias.conradt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie

here,

so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how

does

one go about that?

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

Boris Epstein

2 Oct 2 Oct

1:12 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] PDF searching via Mediawiki

Hello again, A little while back I have asked if there was a way to search PDF files (the text in the PDF files) via MediaWiki. I have gotten some tentative advice in response. However, before I start trying to implement that advice let me ask you all one more question: does anybody actually have a MediaWiki site that can search the text inside PDF files? Thanks. Boris. On 9/28/07, Mathias Conradt <mathias.conradt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie

here,

so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so, how

does

one go about that?

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

Boris Epstein

3:46 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] PDF searching via Mediawiki

Hey everbody, This is me again... Does anybody know what ever came of this bug fix/enhancement request: 6422 Extract embedded text from PDF documents for search<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6422> On 10/2/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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With Lucene it should be possible. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LuceneSearch On 9/28/07, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse me if the question is really dumb... but I am a newbie

here,

so I should be forgiven for that:) The question is this: can PDF files uploaded to a Mediawiki-powered site be made searchable, and if so,

how does

one go about that?

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

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