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PDFPlugin

Plugin that processes PDF documents.

The following table lists all of the configuration options available for PDFPlugin.

OptionDescriptionValue
PDFPlugin Options
convert_to (REQUIRED) Plugin converts to TEXT or HTML or various types of Image (e.g. JPEG, GIF, PNG). Default: html
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process_exp A perl regular expression to match against filenames. Matching filenames will be processed by this plugin. For example, using '(?i).html?\$' matches all documents ending in .htm or .html (case-insensitive). Default: (?i)\.pdf$
block_exp Files matching this regular expression will be blocked from being passed to any later plugins in the list.
metadata_fields Comma separated list of metadata fields to attempt to extract. Capitalise this as you want the metadata capitalised in Greenstone, since the tag extraction is case insensitive. e.g. Title,Date. Use 'tag<tagname>' to have the contents of the first <tag> pair put in a metadata element called 'tagname'. e.g. Title,Date,Author<Creator>; Default: Title,Author,Subject,Keywords
metadata_field_separator Separator character used in multi-valued metadata. Will split a metadata field value on this character, and add each item as individual metadata.
noimages Don't attempt to extract images from PDF.
allowimagesonly Allow PDF files with no extractable text. Avoids the need to have -complex set. Only useful with convert_to html.
complex Create more complex output. With this option set the output html will look much more like the original PDF file. For this to function properly you Ghostscript installed (for *nix gs should be on your path while for windows you must have gswin32c.exe on your path).
nohidden Prevent pdftohtml from attempting to extract hidden text. This is only useful if the -complex option is also set.
zoom The factor by which to zoom the PDF for output (this is only useful if -complex is set). Default: 2 Range: 1,3
use_sections Create a separate section for each page of the PDF file.
description_tags Split document into sub-sections where <Section> tags occur. '-keep_head' will have no effect when this option is set.
Options Inherited from AutoLoadConverters
pdfbox_conversionUse PDFBox to convert the PDF files. This option is only available if you have downloaded the PDFBox extension.
Options Inherited from ConvertBinaryFile
convert_to (REQUIRED) Plugin converts to TEXT or HTML or various types of Image (e.g. JPEG, GIF, PNG). Default: auto
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keep_original_filename Keep the original filename for the associated file, rather than converting to doc.pdf, doc.doc etc.
title_sub Substitution expression to modify string stored as Title. Used by, for example, PDFPlugin to remove "Page 1", etc from text used as the title.
apply_fribidi Run the "fribidi" Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm program over the converted file (for right-to-left text).
use_strings If set, a simple strings function will be called to extract text if the conversion utility fails.
Options Inherited from AutoExtractMetadata
first Comma separated list of numbers of characters to extract from the start of the text into a set of metadata fields called 'FirstN', where N is the size. For example, the values "3,5,7" will extract the first 3, 5 and 7 characters into metadata fields called "First3", "First5" and "First7".
Options Inherited from AcronymExtractor
extract_acronyms Extract acronyms from within text and set as metadata.
markup_acronyms Add acronym metadata into document text.
Options Inherited from KeyphraseExtractor
extract_keyphrases Extract keyphrases automatically with Kea (default settings).
extract_keyphrases_kea4 Extract keyphrases automatically with Kea 4.0 (default settings). Kea 4.0 is a new version of Kea that has been developed for controlled indexing of documents in the domain of agriculture.
extract_keyphrase_options Options for keyphrase extraction with Kea. For example: mALIWEB - use ALIWEB extraction model; n5 - extract 5 keyphrase;, eGBK - use GBK encoding.
Options Inherited from EmailAddressExtractor
extract_email Extract email addresses as metadata.
Options Inherited from DateExtractor
extract_historical_years Extract time-period information from historical documents. This is stored as metadata with the document. There is a search interface for this metadata, which you can include in your collection by adding the statement, "format QueryInterface DateSearch" to your collection configuration file.
maximum_year The maximum historical date to be used as metadata (in a Common Era date, such as 1950). Default: 2013
maximum_century The maximum named century to be extracted as historical metadata (e.g. 14 will extract all references up to the 14th century). Default: -1
no_bibliography Do not try to block bibliographic dates when extracting historical dates.
Options Inherited from GISExtractor
extract_placenames Extract placenames from within text and set as metadata. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
gazetteer Gazetteer to use to extract placenames from within text and set as metadata. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
place_list When extracting placements, include list of placenames at start of the document. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
Options Inherited from BasePlugin
process_exp A perl regular expression to match against filenames. Matching filenames will be processed by this plugin. For example, using '(?i).html?\$' matches all documents ending in .htm or .html (case-insensitive).
no_blocking Don't do any file blocking. Any associated files (e.g. images in a web page) will be added to the collection as documents in their own right.
block_exp Files matching this regular expression will be blocked from being passed to any later plugins in the list.
store_original_file Save the original source document as an associated file. Note this is already done for files like PDF, Word etc. This option is only useful for plugins that don't already store a copy of the original file.
associate_ext Causes files with the same root filename as the document being processed by the plugin AND a filename extension from the comma separated list provided by this argument to be associated with the document being processed rather than handled as a separate list.
associate_tail_re A regular expression to match filenames against to find associated files. Used as a more powerful alternative to associate_ext.
OIDtype The method to use when generating unique identifiers for each document. Default: auto
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OIDmetadata Specifies the metadata element that hold's the document's unique identifier, for use with -OIDtype=assigned. Default: dc.Identifier
no_cover_image Do not look for a prefix.jpg file (where prefix is the same prefix as the file being processed) to associate as a cover image.
filename_encoding The encoding of the source file filenames. Default: auto
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file_rename_method The method to be used in renaming the copy of the imported file and associated files. Default: url
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convert_to option values

ValueDescription
autoAutomatically select the format converted to. Format chosen depends on input document type, for example Word will automatically be converted to HTML, whereas PowerPoint will be converted to Greenstone's PagedImage format.
htmlHTML format.
textPlain text format.
pagedimg_jpgA series of images in JPEG format.
pagedimg_gifA series of images in GIF format.
pagedimg_pngA series of images in PNG format.