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PostScriptPlugin

This is a "poor man's" ps to text converter. If you are serious, consider using the PRESCRIPT package, which is available for download at http://www.nzdl.org/html/software.html

Processes files with extensions:.ps
Perl regular expression: (?i)\.ps$

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

Option	Description	Value
PostScriptPlugin Options
convert_to	(REQUIRED) Plugin converts to TEXT or HTML or various types of Image (e.g. JPEG, GIF, PNG).	Default: text List
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)\.ps$
block_exp	Files matching this regular expression will be blocked from being passed to any later plugins in the list.	Default: (?i)\.(eps)$
extract_date	Extract date from PS header.
extract_pages	Extract pages from PS header.
extract_title	Extract title from PS header.
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 List
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 List
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 List
file_rename_method	The method to be used in renaming the copy of the imported file and associated files.	Default: url List

convert_to option values

Value	Description
auto	Automatically 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.
text	Plain text format.
pagedimg_jpg	A series of images in JPEG format.
pagedimg_gif	A series of images in GIF format.
pagedimg_png	A series of images in PNG format.

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PostScriptPlugin

convert_to option values