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Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF



On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net>  writes:


If poppler, for example, doesn't render *exactly* but searches
/rapidly/, then you could search using poppler and "read" using
Acroread.

Alternatively, install poppler-utils for it's pdftohtml.  Certainly it
won't be perfect, but a browser might be faster than Acroread.
>
You're right. Why not? I'll try it out. Thanks.

Another suggestion: PDFMiner

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/

Hopefully it will soon be packaged.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584555

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