PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

Table 10.2 Global options for TET_set_option( )
option
searchpath 1
shutdownstrategy
description
(List of name strings) Relative or absolute path name(s) of a directory containing files to be read. The
search path can be set multiply; the entries will be accumulated and used in least-recently-set order (see
Section 5.2, »Resource Configuration and File Searching«, page 61). An empty string deletes all existing
search path entries. On Windows the search path can also be set via a registry entry. Default: platformspecific,
see »File search and the searchpath resource category«, page 62.
(Integer) Strategy for releasing global resources which are allocated once for all TET objects. Each global
resource is initialized on demand when it is first needed. This option must be set to the same value for all
TET objects in a process; otherwise the behavior is undefined (default: 0):
0 A reference counter keeps track of how many PLOP objects use the resource. When the last
TET object is deleted and the reference counter drops to zero, the resource is released.
1 The resource is kept until the end of the process. This may slightly improve performance, but
requires more memory after the last TET object is deleted.
1. Option values can be accumulated with multiple calls.
2. Unlike the UPR syntax an equal character ’=’ between the name and value is neither required nor allowed.
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