Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
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From: Merciadri Luca on 29 May 2010 15:00 Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
From: Ron Johnson on 29 May 2010 15:30 On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for Wow. How big is that? > other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for > a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I > do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, > it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so > sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... > Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? Do you hear the disk spin up when you start the search? In Edit->Preferences->Search there is a knob or two you can diddle with. Lastly, acroread is free-as-in-beer. Adobe wants you to buy Acrobat to get the Good Stuff. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C016AC0.4030707(a)cox.net
From: Merciadri Luca on 29 May 2010 15:40 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for > > Wow. How big is that? Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias! > >> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for >> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I >> do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, >> it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so >> sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... >> > > Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose range of compatibility with the PDF standard is as high as in acroread. Acroread is slow, boring, sometimes buggy, but I need to use it as long as I do not find a PDF reader which has such a big compatibility range. > Do you hear the disk spin up when you start the search? Not at all. I have a HDD load monitor, and I do not even see any trace of some HDD use. Such documents often contain no pictures (only schematics, as you might guess), and are thus light, so I do not expect acroread to use the HDD a lot when looking for a word. > In Edit->Preferences->Search there is a knob or two you can diddle with. Yes, I tried. But nothing better. > Lastly, acroread is free-as-in-beer. Adobe wants you to buy Acrobat > to get the Good Stuff. That's a fact. That's the less attractive counterpart of acroread. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Big thunder. Little rain.
From: Erik Heil on 29 May 2010 18:10 hi. Just posting this reply to the list/usenet newsgroup, so others can benefit from this, and so it an be properly archived. i'm using Gmail ere, and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable the "Conversations" view. So, you get confused when yu use the "Quick Reply" feature. ---Erik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Heil <eheil1(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:15:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF To: Luca.Merciadri(a)student.ulg.ac.be Hi. What you may have to look at is the possibility of a document management system. For your needs, you won't need anything upscale, just something that can process the PDF documents, index the text, and open it within Acroread, or optionally another reader. Since indexing generates compressed versions of the document, you should be able to get reasonable search times. Perhaps have a chron job nightly to index new documents--don't know how often you add new documents. Just ideas for you tto play with. i'm sure Debian has something like this to offer. Maybe not? Perhaps more people here would have more knowledge of this. --Erik On 5/29/10, Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri(a)student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for >> >> Wow. How big is that? > Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias! >> >>> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for >>> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I >>> do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, >>> it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so >>> sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... >>> >> >> Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? > As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was > not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using > free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose > range of compatibility with the PDF standard is as high as in acroread. > Acroread is slow, boring, sometimes buggy, but I need to use it as long > as I do not find a PDF reader which has such a big compatibility range. >> Do you hear the disk spin up when you start the search? > Not at all. I have a HDD load monitor, and I do not even see any trace > of some HDD use. Such documents often contain no pictures (only > schematics, as you might guess), and are thus light, so I do not expect > acroread to use the HDD a lot when looking for a word. >> In Edit->Preferences->Search there is a knob or two you can diddle with. > Yes, I tried. But nothing better. >> Lastly, acroread is free-as-in-beer. Adobe wants you to buy Acrobat >> to get the Good Stuff. > That's a fact. That's the less attractive counterpart of acroread. > > > -- > Merciadri Luca > See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ > I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail > client, please contact me. > > > Big thunder. Little rain. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTilf9B2EuHkFMAJ5zZryZysyl0vyLYgyTI4iM9Cq(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Ron Johnson on 29 May 2010 20:30 On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> >> Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? > As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was > not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using > free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose > range of compatibility with the PDF standard is as high as in acroread. > Acroread is slow, boring, sometimes buggy, but I need to use it as long > as I do not find a PDF reader which has such a big compatibility range. Nothing says that you must only use one reader at a time. ;) If poppler, for example, doesn't render *exactly* but searches /rapidly/, then you could search using poppler and "read" using Acroread. Alternatively, install poppler-utils for it's pdftohtml. Certainly it won't be perfect, but a browser might be faster than Acroread. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C01AFDD.7050004(a)cox.net
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