Document Indexing using external tools

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Technical Name document-indexing
LicenseSee License tab
Versions 12.0 11.0

Better document indexing using external tools

This module replaces the default attachment indexing logic using calls to external tools. This enables Odoo to index many more file types for fulltext search, moreover the indexing of .pdf files is far more reliable.

In order to use this module, you have to install libreoffice and poppler-utils to your operating system first.

Make sure you can run "soffice" and "pdftotext" from command line.

The module indexes these document types:

  • .doc,
  • .docx,
  • .pdf,
  • .xls,
  • .xlsx,
  • .odp,
  • .ods,
  • .odt,
  • .wps (MS Works),
  • .rtf,
  • .ppt,
  • .pptx

Other types are passed to default processing by ir.attachment model.

The indexing works in two steps. First, the document is translated to .pdf using "soffice --headless" command, then the text is extracted from the .pdf by using "pdftotext" from poppler-utils.

Please take a look into /tmp directory from time to time, since there can still be some orphan files that you may want to delete manually. These files can remain in /tmp if the conversion to .pdf crashes for some reason.

Installation

How to install under docker image with odoo11

  1. download and run odoo image
  2. docker exec -it -u root odoo12 /bin/bash
  3. apt-get update
  4. apt-get install libreoffice poppler-utils
  5. cd to Odoo addons path
  6. unpack the module
  7. in Odoo, update modules list and install the module
  8. done - test it

How to install to on-premise Odoo installation under linux

  1. apt-get install libreoffice poppler-utils
  2. cd to Odoo addons path
  3. unpack the module
  4. in Odoo, update modules list and install the module
  5. done - test it

How to install to on-premise Odoo installation under Windows

...no idea, just try to make sure that you have everything needed to be able to run "soffice" and "pdftotext" commands from command line.

Creadits: the icon is named Search and its author is Igé Maulana from the Noun Project

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Copyright (c) 2018 Jan B. Krejčí

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by
Johannes Bacher
on 12/16/21, 8:41 AM

Dear Jan, we have Odoo 15 and I wonder if your tool will work there? 

Our standard indexing works, only PDFs are not indexed. We run Odoo on Ubuntu, do you have any hints why PDF indexing fails? How can I check if pdftotext is working?

thank you

Johannes

Re:
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Jan B. Krejčí
on 12/16/21, 10:14 AM Author

Dear Johannes,

I haven't tried my module on Odoo newer than 12, yet.

What do you mean by "our standard indexing works"? Are you using my module with Odoo 15?

To check if pdftotext works I would recommend trying using it in commandline manually. See https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html

Please feel free to contact me by e-mail janbkrejci (at) gmail (dot) com

Best regards

Jan