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To: Amine Tengilimoglu <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: How to read an external pdf file from postgres?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:25:18 +0100
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On 12.01.22 12:16, Amine Tengilimoglu wrote:
> I want to read an external pdf file from postgres. pdf file will
> exist on the disk. postgres only know the disk full path as metadata. Is
> there any software or extension that can be used for this? Or do we have
> to develop software for it? Or what is the best approach for this? I'd
> appreciate it if anyone with experience could make suggestions.
You could write a function in PL/Perl or PL/Python to open and read the
file and process the PDF data, using some third-party module that surely
exists somewhere.
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