#!/bin/sh # @(#$Id: rclpdf,v 1.10 2007-07-12 17:13:38 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes # This is copied almost verbatim from Estraier: #================================================================ # Estraier: a personal full-text search system # Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Mikio Hirabayashi #================================================================ #================================================================ # Convert a pdf file to HTML. # # We use pdftotxt from the xpdf package. This does not perfect results as # whitespace is sometimes either arbitrarily inserted or stripped from the # text. This seems to depend on the usage of option -raw, and, # unfortunately also of the document itself, so that there does not seem to # be an universally good solution # # Also, the filter sometimes seems to output problematic utf-8. I did not # check if it was actually incorrect or just mis-understood by qtextedit # (tobedone) # Uncomment the following if you get better results without. The # pdftotext manual says that the option is no longer recommended The # difference in output seems mostly the removal of soft-hyphens when # -raw is not set # optionraw=-raw # set variables LANG=C ; export LANG LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL progname="rclpdf" filetype=pdf #RECFILTCOMMONCODE ############################################################################## # !! Leave the previous line unmodified!! Code imported from the # recfiltcommon file # Utility code common to all shell filters. This could be sourced at run # time, but it's slightly more efficient to include the code in the # filters at build time (with a sed script). # Describe error in a way that can be interpreted by our caller senderror() { echo RECFILTERROR $* # Also alert on stderr just in case echo ":2:$progname::: $*" 1>&2 exit 1 } iscmd() { cmd=$1 case $cmd in */*) if test -x $cmd -a ! -d $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;; *) oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd -a ! -d $d/$cmd && return 0;done return 1 ;; esac } checkcmds() { for cmd in $*;do if iscmd $cmd then a=1 else senderror HELPERNOTFOUND $cmd fi done } # show help message if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" then echo "Convert a $filetype file to HTML text for Recoll indexing." echo "Usage: $progname [infile]" exit 1 fi infile="$1" # check the input file existence (may be '-' for stdin) if test "X$infile" != X- -a ! -f "$infile" then senderror INPUTNOSUCHFILE "$infile" fi # protect access to our temp files and directories umask 77 ############################################################################## # !! Leave the following line unmodified ! #ENDRECFILTCOMMONCODE checkcmds pdftotext iconv awk # Run pdftotext and fix the result (add a charset tag and fix the html escaping # The strange 'BEGIN' setup is to prevent 'file' from thinking this file # is an awk program pdftotext $optionraw -htmlmeta -enc UTF-8 -eol unix -q "$infile" - | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -c -s | awk 'BEGIN'\ ' { doescape = 0 cont = "" charsetmeta = "" } { $0 = cont $0 cont = "" # Insert charset meta tag at end of header if(doescape == 0 && $0 ~ /<\/head>/) { match($0, /<\/head>/) part1 = substr($0, 0, RSTART-1) part2 = substr($0, RSTART, length($0)) $0 = part1 charsetmeta part2 } if(doescape == 0 && $0 ~ /