Re: beagle problem with indexing pdf files



On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:12:29PM -0400, D Bera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:11 +0200, Jan Falkenhagen wrote:
> > > i've got a problem with beagle indexing pdf documents. Sometimes pdf
> > > indexing causes very high cpu and memory consumption of the pdftotext
> > > process (>1.5 GB of RAM). however i guess that this occurs only with
> > > some broken pdf files. is there any simple way to track down this
> > > behaviour to the files that are causing this problem?
> >
> > This is a bug in the xpdf software (from which pdftotext comes), and I'd
> > suggest you report a bug to their developers.
> >
> > If you'd like, you can attach a broken PDF to a beagle bug and we can
> > see what we can do to work around it.
> 
> Or if someone wants to write a managed PDF parser (in C#), that would
> be cool too :). There are some C# pdf libraries out there that can be
> used e.g. itextsharp (its under LGPL, is that compatible with beagle
> licensing ?)

  Or poppler-sharp.

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