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[EP-tech] Re: Garbage indexing some pdf

Hi
Would you please provide an example of a PDF in your repository which demonstrates this problem?
Thanks
Slavko Manojlovich
Associate University Librarian (IT)
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
Canada
email: slavko@mun..ca
 

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of Paolo Tealdi
Sent: Thu 4/26/2012 8:09 AM
To: <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [EP-tech] Garbage indexing some pdf



Dear all,

we found  that some PDFs aren't parseable by pdftotext function,
creating documents completely full of garbage.
It's not a permission problem (pdf blocked in copy&paste), more probably
is an encoding problem : opening them with acrobat/xpfd, i can see
character fonts with enconding type "embedded".
Did somebody  find this type of pdf files ? Anybody resolved ?

We can find them simply with this select :

select *,length(word) fron eprint__rindex where length(word) > 35

In attach a screenshot with some of the eprint__rindex records garbaged ...

With this select you'll find also pdfs using high unicode characters : a
world will open you :-D

Best regards,
Paolo Tealdi

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