[TYPO3-dam] dam_index external tools

[georg kuehnberger]

Xavier,

AFAIR you would have to set the path to the external programs in the 
extension-configuration of eigther dam_index or the respective indexing 
service; I feel this is also mentioned in the dam_index (or the service 
doku);
regards georg

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> Hi DAM users,
> 
> I finally found that there is a dedicated list to DAM and thus I'll try 
> repost my old message I posted on the English list many weeks ago but 
> that did not get any single answer.
> 
> I installed a few extensions in order to extract meta informations for
> my DAM:
> 
> - cc_metaexif
> - cc_metaexec
> - cc_meta_xmp
> - cc_txtextexec
> - cc_txtextphp
> 
> If I go to Media > Files > Indexing > Service Info, I get a table that
> summaries available service for indexing and I find all of these
> extensions. However, all services depending on external tools
> (pdftotext, catdoc, xls2csv, exiftags, ...) are said to be unavailable
> (red cross) although I installed them and they are running smoothly with
> indexed_search.
> 
> As footer of the table summary, I read
> 
> -----------
> The "External" column shows which external programs are needed. If a
> service is not available, it might be the case that the program is not
> installed or can't be executed.
> -----------
> 
> I tried to debug a few this problem but I cannot get why this does not
> work. Does anybody already encountered such a problem? Any hint?
> 
> Thanks
> Xavier