Hi,
my drupal resides on a virtual machine at:
/var/www/vhosts/miodominio.it/drupalsite

and pdftotext path is

/usr/local/bin/pdftotext

I tested pdftotex and it works on server, but if I

I set the Helper path as:
/usr/local/bin/pdftotext %file% -

in the helper settings of search module the response is:

Can't find helper app /usr/local/bin/pdftotext -- please verify it is installed.

(php safemode is off) I installed the search module version for drupal 5.
Can someone help me?

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mmirza commented

Hello there, may i firstly say that the concepts of the search files module is great, I'm a drupal newbie and really need this module setup, I am prepared to write some documentation on the setup of this module to help the drupal community.
I have installed the module, enabled it, the helper applications have been installed on the server, the default paths to catdoc and pdftotext within the module settings are as follows.

'/usr/bin/env pdftotext %file% -
'/usr/bin/env cat %file%'

from what i can see the helper applications on the server have the following paths,
/usr/bin/pdftotext
/usr/bin/catdoc

I have defined the path of the helper applications so that they match up to the directory on the server, when i attach a pdf file to a node, run cron and then search for a term that is in the pdf file, the results are not returned.

I can't seem to find any other way of working out where i have gone wrong, please csn you help, like I said I am more than willing to help the drupal community also with some docuemntation on this, I'm not very technical and am new to drupal, so please be gentle.

Thanks

vijayasri01’s picture

vijayasri01 commented

Hello, Am too having same problem can some help us out...

Thanks