Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
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---Erik
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From: Erik Heil <eheil1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:15:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
To: Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be
Hi.
What you may have to look at is the possibility of a document
management system. For your needs, you won't need anything upscale,
just something that can process the PDF documents, index the text, and
open it within Acroread, or optionally another reader. Since indexing
generates compressed versions of the document, you should be able to
get reasonable search times. Perhaps have a chron job nightly to index
new documents--don't know how often you add new documents. Just ideas
for you tto play with. i'm sure Debian has something like this to
offer. Maybe not? Perhaps more people here would have more knowledge
of this.
--Erik
On 5/29/10, Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
>>
>> Wow. How big is that?
> Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias!
>>
>>> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for
>>> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I
>>> do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document,
>>> it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so
>>> sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD...
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers?
> As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was
> not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using
> free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose
> range of compatibility with the PDF standard is as high as in acroread.
> Acroread is slow, boring, sometimes buggy, but I need to use it as long
> as I do not find a PDF reader which has such a big compatibility range.
>> Do you hear the disk spin up when you start the search?
> Not at all. I have a HDD load monitor, and I do not even see any trace
> of some HDD use. Such documents often contain no pictures (only
> schematics, as you might guess), and are thus light, so I do not expect
> acroread to use the HDD a lot when looking for a word.
>> In Edit->Preferences->Search there is a knob or two you can diddle with.
> Yes, I tried. But nothing better.
>> Lastly, acroread is free-as-in-beer. Adobe wants you to buy Acrobat
>> to get the Good Stuff.
> That's a fact. That's the less attractive counterpart of acroread.
>
>
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