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Searching in pdf files¶

Bib allows to search in the text of pdf files by caching the textual content of the pdf file in a database field. This requires a pdf text extraction utility called pdftotext to be installed on the server which runs the TYPO3 system. pdftotext is part of the xpdf or xpdf-utils package. Neither xpdf nor pdftotext are part or extensions of TYPO3 or PHP but independent programs that must be installed by the administrator of the underlying operating system.

The automatic pdf text extraction can be enabled in the TypoScript template. In the Configuration/Reference section there is a description of the neccessary variable settings for that under

plugin.tx_bib_pi1.editor.full_text.

Please note that the text extraction only works when using the frontend editor. If the backend is used to edit od add a reference entry then the pdf-text-cache-field does not get updated or filled at all.