[OT:] Wilbur indexer ? JT?

Someone posted something about Wibur. I was wondering if anyone using it has managed to get it to work properly with pdftotext.exe. I've been talking to the author and he claims it works on many machines. For me, pdftptext works from the command line, but not from Wilbur.

FLpro? No returns but FilePro... maybe it was FileMaker - that POS I converted for a local plastics extrusion company. flpro.com is about AutoTrackXP. So whatchoo talking about?

Wilbur is pretty good so far, but the author got sucked into using MFC for his winders ports back when he did it. The open source will be a bitch if I have to fix or enhance it myself :(

You'll need to download pdftotext.exe and drop it somewhere in your path to test it - like windows\system32, or whatever. pdftotext does a good conversion from the command line. The problem is that when I let Wilbur do it, he doesn't return any pdfs when he builds the index. Take pdftotext out and Wibur returns pdfs, but in the contents pane, you see the serch term along with all the pdf tags.

regex? Sorry. Wildcards and booleans only. Plus a "near" operator "

Then Wilbur will work. Normally, if you had a prob with a prog, I'd check versions. Craig finally showed me his usage output from pdftotext - the -eol switch didn't work for me and he has it hardwired in to Wilbur. You'll need version 1.0 or later and the site I got mine from still has an old version.

There's newer versions, but (it's not in the help file) wilbur.redtree.com/pdf links to stuff that works with Wilbur

It rocks now. pdftotext just mangles equations and maybe a bit of text.

One of my favorite acronyms :)

Hey. Thanks for the headstart. I need to wait 'til I can get a new Mandrake from linuxiso.org (no high speed yet and my friend has disappeared from the net) Then I'll do stuff like that. My old redhat had some kind of indexing set up in a cron job, but I think that was just for speeding up locate, appropose, and find commands - can't remember.

I already suggested it (and went one better).

I think Jim has me plonked.

It's almost amusing watching Jim cut off his nose to spite his face.

Cheers! Rich

I do like the ones that actually mean something - what bugs me is the ones like awk - some kind of programming language, invented by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. So they named it after themselves.

I expecially like Larry Wall's take on perl: Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. ;-) (practical extraction & report language)

Cheers! Rich

Thanks for bringing it up again. There aren't many windows progs that I know of that support regex.

Un*x is full of delightful and whimsical command names. One that tickles me is "bison". Back in the dark days (when I was running Coherent), we had yacc, meaning "yet another compiler compiler". Later, a similar, improved utility emerged, called "bison". Why? Because a bison is quite like a yak, but different.

Well, at least they didn't call C "K(ernighan) (and) R(itchie's) A(pplication) P(rogrammer)

:-)

LOL! Hey, this one's a keeper! When I repeat this throughout the world, would you like me to include attribution?

Thanks! Rich