[Nepomuk] Some PDF files not content indexed

Sebastian Trüg sebastian at trueg.de
Wed Nov 30 17:02:36 UTC 2011


This has been addressed in KDE 4.7.3 recently. Sorry, but I will not
backport to 4.6.

However, I will bug the Mandriva maintainer to update the packages.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 11/28/2011 03:09 AM, Rick Kunath wrote:
> This is Mandriva 2011.0 and KDE 4.6.5
> 
> I do have some pdf files that have their text content properly indexed.
> 
> However, others are not. I have a collection of old magazine pdf files that 
> never get their content indexed. The Linux version of Adobe Reader can search 
> text inside these, but they never get indexed.
> 
> There does not appear to be anything odd about the files that I can see. And M$ 
> desktop search indexes text inside these on another partition, so I would 
> think they are search-able.
> 
> I have unchecked the directory that these reside in, then re-checked it in the 
> search folders setup, and saw it get crawled again. But no text inside of 
> these files is ever delivered in the search results for words known to be 
> contained in these files.
> 
> I don't know how to go about providing some usable information to see what it 
> might be about these particular files that is preventing them from being 
> indexed. And I'd like to get the contents of these available in searches.
> 
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> Rick Kunath
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