I'm putting together a search engine using Apache Solr. I have a few dozen PDF documents that I want to break apart and export each page into an individual text file so that I can then write scripts to convert to XML files for submission to Solr for indexing.

Can anyone recommend a tool or script for exporting each page as an individual text file? If you have experience with indexing PDF files within Solr, then I'd also like comments about whether this is a good or bad way to approach indexing PDF-sourced content.

Appreciatively,

di11rod

pdf2txt is the tool you need. There may be others of course. Here you see what to do:

http://pnaplinux.blogspot.com/2008/1...o-pdf2txt.html

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J-Ray,

That is perfect. I really appreciate you posting that link showing the different arguments, etc. It does illustrate the exact ways I intend to use the pdf2text tool.

Many thanks!!!!

di11rod