Full text indexing for PDFs

Hello,
Is the possibility of full text indexing for PDFs (uploaded via the download field) anywhere on the roadmap? So that search could be performed not only for document title and meta data but also for the text within the PDF as well. Something like this: extensions.joomla.org/extension/os-pdf-indexer
Thanks,
Agata

Hello

we could do this with just a little more work
- but we would need to install 1 more 3rd part PHP library to be able to extract text from the PDFs

e.g.
github.com/smalot/pdfparser

That would be amazing! Would it work with all 3 search plugins (Flexi advanced search, Joomla search and Finder) and the ACL? What do you think the timeframe would be? If you need to talk over any details, please PM me.

As it turns out, a document manager we were going to use has a shortcoming that the devs can't fix that disqualifies it from being used on this particular project. So this is a life saver.
Million thanks,
Agata

Hello,
Could you give me an idea as to when this might happen?
Also, another handy feature would be to be able to time stamp selected documents so that when a person downloads or views a document, a date of that download/view gets added to the bottom of the document. There are ready libraries to do that as far as I know, it would again be a matter of implementing it within FC.
Please don't hesitate to send me a message if the way to make this happen was to hire you for these tasks.
Best,
Agata

This could be the library for time stamping PDFs perhaps? www.kryptokoder.com/signwithext.html
Best,
Agata

Hello

this is probably little work
- every field has a method to prepare indexed text
in it we load the external lib and get the PDF text

also our indexer is made to handle delays properly
- thus if this is enabled then text-indexing/re-indexing will be slower, but no timeouts will occur

i am concerned of the FILE SIZE of FLEXIcontent package,
- i will move this and 1 or 2 more 3rd party libs into a seperate package and add a warning / download link, if someone tries to use them