Re: Oracle Text file_datastore with pdf files

Ben wrote:
> 9.2.0.5 Ent Ed AIX5L
>
> I have recently been trying to create text indexes to search a product
> catalog that is in the form of Adobe pdf files.
>
> I couldn't get the pdf's to filter correctly so I opened an SR with
> Oracle and was promptly told that Adobe version 7.0 pdf's are not
> support with Oracle Text file_datastore indexing and they wouldn't be
> until 11g is realeased. Adobe is already in version 8.0 ( i believe )
> so by the time 11g is released I would guess that you won't be able to
> get a current pdf to filter still.
>
> Does anyone have a workaround to creating a file_datastore on 9i with
> Adobe 7.0? Any help is appreciated, as I'm fairly helpless at the
> moment.
>
> Thanks

If this is for a commercial application contact Continental Data Graphics, a division of The Boeing Company.

http://www.cdgnow.com/

That is their business. Due to an NDA I can't help beyond pointing you to them.

HTH

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Daniel A. Morgan
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