Crawl and Analyze PDF Files When Crawling Websites with Website Scraper

You can have content in PDF documents analyzed during site crawl when using our website scraper tool.

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Crawl and Analysis of PDF Files

First we need to enable a special setting to crawl content inside PDF files:

crawl PDF files

After this we point our website scraper to a PDF to TEXT conversion tool executable:

pdf files conversion tool

After having configured above, crawl your website as you normally would when using A1 Website Scraper - the scan will include analysis of PDF files like this example file.

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This help page is maintained by Thomas Schulz

As one of the lead developers, his hands have touched most of the code in the software from Microsys. If you email any questions, chances are that he will be the one answering.