Er, no. I will look. Thanks. And, are you saying that if perl can parse the
PDF, then populating the database is simple?
----- Original Message ----
From: Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stuart White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:51:34 AM
Subject: Re: Can perl find list of words from a PDF or other document and
populate a database?
Well, populating the database is a gimmie, but for parsing the PDF document,
have you examined all of the PDF modules on CPAN to see if they can do what you
are asking?
Regards,
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Stuart White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a bunch of documents that I need to import into a proprietary database.
The database has a table with key words, specifically, names of people. This
database software will import documents, but will not search those documents
for these key words, and then let me know which documents talk about which
people and on which page. Specifically, I would like to see in the "referenced
in document" field of the record for Joe Smith, a number that represents all
the documents Joe Smith is referenced in. Then, that field is linked to
another table, a Documents table, that shows me the names of each document Joe
Smith is referenced in, and the page number. My database program already does
this second part, but I have to manually do the first part, the reading of the
document, marking in the Joe Smith record that he is in that document. I
prefer not to do that. I still have to read the documents anyway, and I still
would have to read them for proper
nouns that refer to Joe Smith, or Mr. Smith, or Joe, but I'd like for some of
my work to be done by a program.
That said, can perl search on a document for these key words, and then populate
my database in that fashion? The database software I am using is called
CaseMap. I recognize that I might need to find a module for CaseMap so that
perl can talk to it (at least, I think that's what I would need to do).
Second, I'd have to at least open my Learning Perl book from 5 years ago and go
through the first 5 or 6 chapters I imagine, to re-introduce myself to perl.
With that said, how difficult might this be to do, (in hours) if it can be
done, by a non-programmer that is willing to learn and once dabbled with perl?
Better yet, how long might it take you (and please state your experience level
with perl) to do this?
Thanks for reading. -stuart
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