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! Search within files
If you want to ((search)) on files in the ((file galleries)), you must provide handlers to extract the text for the file's MIME type. The commands, such as ''strings'' or ''pdftotext'' must exist on your server. The type-command associations are defined in the __Admin->File Galleries__ page.
|| __MIME Type__ | __System command__ | __Ubuntu/Debian package with command__
application/ms-excel | xls2csv %1 | catdoc
application/ms-powerpoint | catppt %1 | catdoc
application/msword | catdoc %1 or strings %1| catdoc
application/pdf | pstotext %1 or pdftotext %1 - | pstotext
application/postscript | pstotext %1 | pstotext
application/ps | pstotext %1 | pstotext
application/rtf | catdoc %1 | catdoc
application/sgml | col -b %1 or strings %1 | bsdmainutils
application/vnd.ms-excel | xls2csv %1 | catdoc
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | catppt %1 | catdoc
application/x-msexcel | xls2csv %1 | catdoc
application/x-pdf | pstotext %1 | pstotext
application/x-troff-man | man -l %1 | man-db
text/enriched | col -b %1 or strings %1 | bsdmainutils
text/html | elinks -dump -no-home %1 | elinks
text/plain | col -b %1 or strings %1| bsdmainutils
text/richtext | col -b %1 or strings %1| bsdmainutils
text/sgml | col -b %1 or strings %1| bsdmainutils
text/tab-separated-values | col -b %1 or strings %1| bsdmainutils ||
Several tools can be used to extract search strings; many Unix sites have "strings", which can detect things which appear to be text within files although without the accuracy of more specialized tools.