Changeset 32224 for main/trunk/greenstone2/perllib/plugins/PDFPlugin.pm

Timestamp:

2018-06-27T18:30:21+12:00 (6 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Adding PDF to text support for Windows using Xpdf's pdftotext tool. Previously PDFPlugin would override the output mode to HTML on Windows if txt output mode was selected.

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone2/perllib/plugins/PDFPlugin.pm (modified) (1 diff)

main/trunk/greenstone2/perllib/plugins/PDFPlugin.pm

@@ -151 +151 @@
     # TODO: Start supporting PDF to txt on Windows if we're going to be using XPDF Tools (incl pdftotext) on Windows/Linux/Mac
     if ($self->{'convert_to'} eq "text" && $ENV{'GSDLOS'} =~ /^windows$/i) {
-    print STDERR "Windows does not support pdf to text. PDFs will be converted to HTML instead\n";
-    $self->{'convert_to'} = "html";
+        print STDERR "On Windows, Greenstone now uses Xpdf tools to support pdf to text conversion.\n";
+    #print STDERR "Windows does not support pdf to text. PDFs will be converted to HTML instead\n";
+    #$self->{'convert_to'} = "html";
     }
     elsif ($self->{'convert_to'} eq "auto") {