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Search for text into PDF documents. App example.¶ ↑

This application is a simple example about how a text search can be done into pdf documents. It works with Sphinx and the pdf-reader gem.

Getting Started¶ ↑

1. Install Sphinx

2. Into the app configure the database connection (Sphinx only will work with MySQL or PostgreSQL)

3. Execute rails s and upload some PDFs

4. Run rake ts:index and rake ts:start

5. Run whenever --update-crontab pdf_index to start the cron job that reindex the records

6. You can also configure the cron job in Rails, now it’s working each minute for testing purposes

Limitations¶ ↑

The app stores texts into DB. The limit for MySQL is 4294967295 characters, so biggest PDFs will trim while storing. It’s also possible that the DB server will throw a time-out.

Todo¶ ↑

• Validate texts on size (perhaps too expensive)

• Write some tests

• Some refactor