Re: [libextractor] Not showing meta information

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Peter,

We've had different versions and implementations of the PDF extractor plugin 
(some based on XPDF, some based on our own parser code, now libpoppler, etc.).  
I suspect the Debian package you got was based on our own parser code, which 
was the least powerful (very incomplete).  

Installing LE 0.6.x should help here.

Best,

Christian

On Wednesday 26 May 2010 15:37:16 Peter Muhr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use Debian lenny and installed the latest libextractor package like
> described in the manual.
> 
> $ apt-get install libextractor-dev extract
> 
> After everything installed properly I was doing this
> 
> $ wget -q http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
> $ extract -b ~/dmca.pdf
> % BiBTeX file
> @misc{ unite2001the_d,
>   title = "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998",
>   author = "United States Copyright Office - jmf",
>   note = "digital millennium copyright act circumvention...",
>   year = "2001",
>   month = "10",
>   key = "Copyright Office Summary of the DMCA",
>   pages = "18"
> }
> 
> like described in the manual. They only problem is that I don't get the
> metainformation as described above. The only thing I get is the following:
> 
> $ extract -b dmca.pdf
> % BibTeX-Datei
> @misc { dmca_,
>     title = "dmca.pdf"
> }
> 
> So it obviously doesn't take any metatags at all. I read the manual and
> searched this board but couldn't find anything. Can you please help me?
> Thank you very much in advance!