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PDF Search

Talkat CakeFest 2022 · 2022-09-29..09-30· [php, databases]
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Builds a small PDF-search prototype that actually works end to end: a CakePHP app runs in Docker, accepts PDF uploads, converts pages to images with poppler, runs Tesseract OCR to extract text, pushes a job to a phpq filesystem queue, and a worker indexes the extracted text into Elasticsearch. Demo shows files converted, OCR output produced and documents indexed and searchable; code and Docker compose are provided so the pipeline can be reproduced locally.

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  1. 0:00Project introduction
  2. 5:59Development environment setup
  3. 13:55Docker containers verification
  4. 20:45Database and skeleton bake
  5. 25:08File upload implementation
  6. 37:58Processing uploaded files
  7. 1:00:10Queue configuration
  8. 1:09:25Background job processing
  9. 1:32:14OCR text extraction
  10. 1:43:31Elasticsearch indexing
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