wildcard.pdfpal 0.7b1

PDF Thumbnail generation, OCR indexing and extra views integrated with plone.app.async

Introduction

This package provides some nice integrations for PDF heavy web sites.

• Generates thumbnails from PDF

• Adds folder view for pdfs so it can use the generated thumbnail

• Adds OCR for PDF indexing

• Everything configurable so you can choose to not use thumbnail gen or OCR

• Ability to create searchable PDFs with HOCR

• use the @@async-monitor url to monitor asynchronous jobs that have yet to run

OCR

OCR requires Ghostscript to be installed and Tesseract. Just you package management to install these packages:

# sudo apt-get install ghostscript tesseract

Searchable PDFs

Requires svn checkout of tesseract version 3.0.1 or 3.0.0 with the hocr configuration in place. Take a look at this thread to find out how to configure hocr http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1647350

In addition, you’ll need exactimage and pdftk installed

# sudo apt-get install exactimage pdftk

Plone 3

• Requires hashlib

Extra

You can convert all at once by calling the url @@queue-up-all.

Changelog

0.7b1 ~ 2011-01-06

• fixes for quality and size issues [vangheem]

0.6b2 ~ 2011-01-04

• fix async monitor view to work with plone.app.async = 1.0 It changed the order of some args in the job. [vangheem]

0.6b1 ~ 2011-01-04

• added ability to make PDFs searchable and make it work seamlessly if wc.pageturner is installed so flex paper is created with the searchable PDF version.

0.5b5 ~ 2010-12-07

• did not conditionally import plone.app.async

0.5b4 ~ 2010-12-06

• better info on async monitor

• only reindex searchabletext when doing OCR so the modification date on the object does not get set.

• make sure to catch exceptions so it doesn’t leave around files after a bad conversion

• add colorbox for pdf folder view

0.5b3 ~ 2010-12-02

• add ability to queue up all pdf files

0.5b2 - 2010-12-02

• fix async monitor view

0.5b1 - 2010-12-02

• Initial release