General Knowledge Base vs Ask Sam vs Idea

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 23, 2008 at 08:54 PM

Thomas wrote:
>>Would you case to send the problematic pdf’s to
> >They said:
>“The pdf keywording
>(and performance issue) have been confirmed here with our own visbuildpro.pdf file
>(that you reference). Apparently the pdf to text component used by Ultra Recall
>doesn’t work properly with that pdf file. Other pdf files we tested do parse
>properly.”
> >I have a number of files where it doesn’t work, maybe I will revisit it
>with them when I have some time, it’s not pressing me currently. I’m surprised it
>wasn’t reported more often.
> >I will soon need some proper indexing software
>(particularly for PDF files and email archives), but most probably it will be
>Archivarius and not UR, especially at the incredibly low price that I can get it for
>which makes it a no-brainer.
> >PS. I too am missing the edit feature.

Thomas -

Thanks very much for checking this. PDF files are something of a stumbling-block for most information managers. Developers always seem over-optimistic about their capacity to do more than display them via the embedded Acrobat Reader. Like you, I wonder why users don’t complain more, when more has been promised.

I’ve concluded that pdf files are probably best held in the Windows filing system and searched by using a decent indexed search program. I use dtSearch, but it is expensive, and Redtree’s Wilbur and Wilma do almost as well for free. Now that Archivarius can apparently search Zoot, I’ll be looking at that one, too.

Derek