topic Re: PDF extraction in Alfresco Archive

PDF extraction

rinuthomas90 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:48:15 GMT

Hi,Is there any add-ons available for extraction pdf to other format(metadata extraction) ? Your help would be greatly appreciated…

Re: PDF extraction

afaust — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:47:35 GMT

Hello,

metadata extraction from PDF is already contained as part of the standard platform. Usually, there are no add-ons required for this unless you have a very specific requirement. What are you trying to do? Where do you think the default functionality of Alfresco provides too little support?

Regards
Axel

Re: PDF extraction

rinuthomas90 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:03:26 GMT

I want to extract the information's like: author, modified by,..etc. Can you help me in getting these details?

Re: PDF extraction

afaust — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:36:13 GMT

Hello,

author is one example of metadata that should already be extracted automatically when you upload a PDF via Share. You can also trigger metadata extraction by starting the action "extract-metadata" (ContentMetadataExtracter) via a script / rule. "Modified By" (cm:modified) isn't a property that should be extracted - this should only be maintained / managed by the system. You could of course define a custom property and map the extracted value of any "Modified By" document header via the PdfBoxMetadataExtracter.properties mapping configuration.
Please also have a look at the <a href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction">wiki article about metadata extraction</a>.

Regards
Axel

Re: PDF extraction

ashwini_g_krish — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:01:31 GMT

Hi,

please can you share some of the screen shots of the solution.