On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Alberto Narduzzi <albertonardu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sorry, > >> I agree. But as I search for text within PDF files? > > I assumed true the following statement of yours... > > [Somebody can help me please? > I need to search strings in Text files using just FPC.]
Yes, I changed my first mail because nobody answered me about search in PDF files! > so I suggested the fast-enough (in my opinion) use of the Pos function. > If _now_ you want to search directly in the PDFs, then I cannot help you, as > I myself would go for the conversion to text files on first instance. I'll try this method too. Now, I'm trying to convert the PDF files as best I can... I don't know if pdf2txt is the best way... > TTYTT, I usually search for text in PDFs (using Acrobat Reader, just > searching, when I need to convert some e-books) and I see it's blooody slow, > compared to a search in a plain text file. > I doubt (but also would like to be discredited here...) there is a faster > library than the Adobe Acrobat Reader one itself, so I think the combination > of the two methods (conversion, and then search) would bring to the same > overall speed; if not higher... Yes, that's what I thought too ;-) > Just my last 2c on the thing. > > P.S. > Why don't you give it a try, cronometer at hand, first? Because I have not gotten in this stage yet :) Thanks, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
