PDFMiner

jdelarosa

We were able to install PDFMiner on our server, and when we run a configuration check in Providence, our system seems to recognize it's there. However, we have not been able to figure out how to make the searchable PDF viewer show up on either Providence or our Pawtucket front-end. Are there additional files we should configure or settings to modify in Providence? I tried changing the preferred PDF viewer under preferences:media but nothing happened.

THANK YOU

seth

You'll have to reindex the PDFs for in-viewer search since they were added before PDFMiner was available. Try running caUtils reindex-pdfs

jdelarosa

Thank you. We were finally able to run the caUtils reindex-pdfs script, but got a lot of errors. Here is a sample below.

<p class="MsoNormal">xternal command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Reindexing PDF RG 28.pdf (103...99.0% 158/159 ETC: < 1 sec. Elapsed: 41 secs [==<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">===========================> ]'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or e<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">xternal command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Reindexing PDF PG 212.pdf (10...100.0% 159/159 ETC: < 1 sec. Elapsed: 41 secs [=<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">==============================]'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">external command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">operable program or batch file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in D:\Apache24\htdocs\prov<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">idence\app\helpers\utilityHelpers.php on line 1993<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"></td></tr></table><b>Error</b> 285: Invalid query parameters<br/>Number of value<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">s passed (0) does not equal number of values required (1) (in Db->mysqli->execut<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">e())<br/><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Request halted.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">D:\Apache24\htdocs\providence\support><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">What else can we try?<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">THANK YOU<o:p></o:p></p>

stefan

Looks like it doesn't like spaces in the pdfminer path you set in external_applications.conf. Can you move/copy the scripts to some location that doesn't have spaces in the path? Or you could try escaping the spaces and/or putting the whole path in double quotes.I've never done this on Windows so I actually have no idea, but it looks like it's trying to execute just 'C:/Program' which I guess is supposed to be C:/Program Files/something/something.exe

jdelarosa

We are now able to see the PDFMiner search box inside the PDF viewer. However, we are still getting errors for certain PDFs, such as:

<p class="MsoNormal">Reindexing PDF 1...30.0% 47/159 ETC: 1 hrs, 48 mins. Elapsed: 45 mins, 35 secs [</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">========>                      ]</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** Warning: Invalid 0.0 font scale given for Tf ****</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** The file was produced by:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** >>>> OmniPageCSDK18 <<<<</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">   **** specification.</p>

stefan

Well, I guess you should notify the author of the software that produced this file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF spec then :-)