htdig-pdfparser(1)

💖 htdig-pdfparser(1) — the vibe check 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about htdig-pdfparser — she's a little wrapper script that parses a PDF document for htdig. that's it. that's her whole job. and she ate. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

htdig-pdfparser — literally just: parse a PDF document (she's a wrapper script for htdig, no cap) 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

htdig-pdfparser

that's the whole thing. no args, no drama. main character energy fr fr 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: this script is a wrapper script for the htdig program. it doesn't do the searching herself — she's the middleman, the hype girl, the plug. 🫶

the exact program that htdig uses to search inside pdf documents for index words? yeah, that's settable in the htdig config file. iconic, right? and you set it by using the debian_pdf_parser directive. periodt. 👑

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

pick your fighter, bestie, there's two:

• acrobat — use the acroread utility to parse PDF documents. the adobe girlie route. 🔥
• xpdf — use the pstotext utility, which is part of the xpdf package, to parse PDF documents. the open-source route. 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/htdig/htdig.conf — the default configuration file. that's where all the settings live, including your debian_pdf_parser directive from up there. iykyk. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

ngl, if you want the full lore, please refer to:

• the HTML pages — they're in the htdig-doc package at /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html
• the manual pages htdig(1)

those two have a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands and honestly? go read them. slay. 📚✨

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Stijn de Bekker <stijn@debian.org> — thank you for your service, king 🫡💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! written on 17 February 2002, from the General Commands Manual, for htdig-pdfparser(1). mwah 💋✨🎀