Dear Eric, Thanks for this. As a small special library (solo librarian) in an Australian State Government Department I use DB/Text works which has a feature of importing documents so that the full text can be read. It though only imports the full-text not what you have done which is really great. I wrote a small piece (see attached) explaining what I am in the process of doing. I am using the library catalogue records as metadata. But I am hoping for something more. I do really want to open up the collection and make the information discoverable more than just the Library catalogue . I had contacted Juame Nualart who wrote a paper on some ways to present terms called Texty. http://informationr.net/ir/18-2/paper581.html But it is not a piece of software. I am quite interested in what you have done. I am just tyring to work out a way to show relevancy and this may be something I could integrate into the Library catalogue. I hope you can take the time to reply to me. Thank you Penelope Campbell | Library Manager Department of Family and Community Services | Housing NSW T 02 8753 8732 | F 02 8753 8734 A Ground Floor, 223-239 Liverpool Road Ashfield NSW, 2131 A Locked bag 4001 Ashfield BC NSW, 1800 E [log in to unmask] W www.housing.nsw.gov.au -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Saturday, 12 October 2013 2:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 PDF2TXT extracts the text from an OCRed PDF document and then does some rudimentary "distant reading" against the text in the form of word clouds, readability scores, concordance features, and "maps" (histograms) illustrating where terms appear in a text. Here is the idea behind the application: 1. In the Libraries I see people scanning, scanning, and scanning. I suppose these people then go home and read the document. They might even print it. These documents are long. Moreover, I'll bet they have multiple documents. 2. Text mining requires digitized text, but PDF documents are frequently full of formatting. At the same time, they often have the text underneath. Our scanning software does OCR. 3. By extracting the text from PDF documents, I can facilitate a different -- additional -- type of analysis against sets of one or more documents. PDF2TXT is the first step in this process. What is really cool is that PDF2TXT works for many of the articles downloadable from the Libraries's article indexes. Search an article index. Download a full text, PDF version of the article. Feed it to PDF2TXT. Get more out of your article. PDF2TXT currently has "creeping featuritis" -- meaning that it is growing in weird directions. Your feedback is more than welcome. (I know. The output is ugly.) Also, please be gentle with it because it does not process things the size of the Bible. -- [cid:116F6092-2AB6-4E95-8199-25639542726A] Eric Lease Morgan Digital Initiatives Librarian University of Notre Dame Room 131, Hesburgh Libraries Notre Dame, IN 46556 o: 574-631-8604 e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [cid:8DBE3E66-AAD0-40A0-A626-745EEEA175E5] ========================================================== Security Statement This email may be confidential and contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this email, including any attachments. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this communication are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. If you have received the email in error please delete and notify the sender. Any views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the department, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the Department of Family and Community Services NSW. The department does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this email has been maintained, or that the communication is free of error, virus, interception, inference or interference. ==========================================================