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Extract text from imported (PDF / Word / Office) files #477

Open joepio opened 2 years ago

joepio commented 2 years ago

Being able to search inside the PDF files uploaded to Atomic Server would be a really nice addition.

Goals:

Make it easier to find PDF documents by searching for terms that occur inside them
Lightweight
Fast
Runs in background, may fail. Should not slow down upload process.
OCR, if missing in the original PDF, would be a decent addition. But only if other goals are met.
Bonus points if it also turns other doc types (e.g. docx) to plaintext
Output should be plaintext or (preferably) markdown

Non-goals:

Extract data from tables in PDFs

There are some tools that could help with this:

pdf-extract rust crate
ooxml-rs openXML (.docx .xlsx .pptx / word powerpoint excel) rust parser
pdf-to-markdown (JS, so should run client-side!)

AlexMikhalev commented 9 months ago

https://crates.io/crates/pdfium-render - new contender. Recently recommended in rust reddit.