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Creating A Searchable PDF with Alfresco

prabu_francis — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 07:29:11 GMT

Hi,I need a searchable PDF in alfresco.I installed alfresco in my system.I uploaded for many PDF files but some PDF files searchable not working.I searched for PDF files content some PDF search working fine but some PDF not working please help me.

Re: Creating A Searchable PDF with Alfresco

sercama — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:07:43 GMT

Hi prabu,

When you upload files into Alfresco, some events are fired to extract the metadata and content of documents. After that, the indexing module, solr, creates indexes of each data extracted to search by them in the future.

if you want to search by content of pdf,you have to be sure that pdf content is type text and no type image. If you have pdf of type image, you will have to transform in pdf of type text using a OCR process.

Keensoft has shared an Alfresco addon to transform pdf of type image in pdf of type text.

GitHub - keensoft/alfresco-simple-ocr: Simple OCR action for Alfresco

If my proposal is not usefull for you, reply me, please.

Regards,

Sergio.

Re: Creating A Searchable PDF with Alfresco

prabu_francis — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:03:14 GMT

Hi Sergio Campoy,

Thank you so much for your support.The above link given by you is not working.Please need me some useful.