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Alexandre Blanquart
Alexandre Blanquart

Reputation: 397

Semantic markups to index PDF files

What is the proper way to index PDF files ? I would like to add semantic information in them, and help search engines present the files more accurately, more precisely (a particular image, text inside the PDF file). I am thinking about using ontologies that engines already understand like Schema.org.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 908

Answers (1)

Shawn Simister
Shawn Simister

Reputation: 4603

How about using schema.org to link to the PDF file from a web page like this:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
  <img itemprop="thumbnailUrl" src="http://www.example.com/how_to_build_a_web_app.jpg"/>
  <a itemprop="url" href="http://www.example.com/how_to_build_a_web_app.pdf">
    <span itemprop="name">How to Build a Web App</span></a>
  by <span itemprop="author">John Smith</span>
  <div itemprop="description">This short e-book explains what a web application 
  is and how to build one.</div>
</div>

This lets you associate a title, image and textual description with the article in the PDF.

Upvotes: 3

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