I have a situtation on a Unix srver with php3 🙁 where I havea website that is database driven, needs to be fully searchable BUT has .pdf's for product information.
The customer wants it so that he uploads the .pdf file, and the product info link is added automatically, and the search (current planning to use MYSQL query) must grab not only info from the DB, but also the product info from the .pdf.
I thought I could find a .pdf2txt converter that would allow me to upload the .pdf, then grab only the text and write the .pdf to a location, then store the .pdf's URL and text to a table.
In the search, I could then include the grabbed text in my MYSQL query, return the URL for the .pdf if it's selected from a search. Bonus is if I could pull this off, I'd be able to make a seach products only button. 🙂
PROBLEM: I can't find a simple webbased .pdf to .txt converter that will run on a Unix box. Unfortunitely, I'm stuck on Unix and stuck with php3. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
-Rich
