No Extracted Text from PDF

[Mike Perry]

I have the following in config.php:

$pdftotext_path='/usr/bin';

pdftotext is in /usr/bin ...

pdftotext does not show in the Installation Check, and there is no extracted text from uploaded PDFs (which have selectable text). What am I missing??

Mike

[Yair Krauze]

Check your log files.  My installation does not show pdftotext in the installation check either, but everything works fine.

[Mike Perry]

Thanks Yair -- There's this entry in the log --

Extract

    resource    ref    68   
2018-05-08 19:28:13    admin    Transformed file

But no extract. Also no "mention"of calling pdftotext. I don't know what the log should say when it does work. . . 

[afatac]

I am encountering the same issue. No text is extracted. Have you solved yours?

New installation. RS 9.0 running on Windows server 2016 IIS.

This field is untounced in config.default.php

$extracted_text_field=72;

In config.php

$pdftotext_path='E:\pdftotext';

PDF previews are created successfully. Not sure if this info is related - unoconv is used and Office document previews are created successfully.

Debug log is enabled, but I didn't see any calling of pdftotext.exe when the pdf files are uploaded and previews are created.

[Mike Perry]

I did solve it -- but I don't recall how.

Version 9.0 SVN.

Let me think on it. . .

[Mike Perry]

Make sure pdftotext exists in your usr/bin folder. . .

It appears I may have asked my hosting company to add it, based on the date of the file. . .

On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 5:28:17 AM UTC-4, afatac wrote:

[afatac]

Thanks for the reply. I have solved the issue but not knowing the exact reason :-)

It is set up in a Windows Server. Probably has something to do with permission of application pool identity and anonymous authentication in IIS.

[Duane Mitchell]

Mike are you on a shared server of a dedicated server? I'd like to ask my hosting company to add this but I'm on a shared server and they may not want to do that.

[Mike Perry]

Shared right now.. . .