add custom action

[biswajit]

hi,
I want to create a rule i.e. 'when a pdf is uploaded it search its similer index file(keep information of that pdf) and read the data and add as a property of that pdf automatically' . Please tell me how this can be achieved in alfesco.
Thanks,

[dranakan]

Hello,

You have an example for custom action here : http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-actions/actions-article.pdf

in your code, you can convert your PDF to text (need to be a PDF text, not picture coming from scanner) : http://www.prasannatech.net/2009/01/convert-pdf-text-parser-java-api-pdfbox.html

Good luck 🙂