Re: Indexing text, pdf, .doc

FROM : Michael Johnston
DATE : Sat Nov 02 01:17:53 2002

Not sure about an embeddable library, but here are a couple good
standalone indexing/search engines:

http://htdig.org/ is open source, and is perl
http://alkaline.vestris.com is very fast and inexpensive, but not open
source

PDF and Word should be converted to text or html and the resulting file
indexed. Everyone uses http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ for pdf; htdig has
a doc2html script for word.

Michael Johnston


On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Steve Ivy wrote:

> I'm doing some research for an app and one of the things I need is the
> ability to index (and subsequently search, obviously) a store of
> content in text documents, pdf files, and Word documents. It can be
> Java or Obj-C. I prefer not to use straight C simply due to my own
> limitations in the language. I'm wondering if anyone has knowledge of
> anything like this. What is Apple using in Sherlock/iTunes/etc?
> Whatever became of AIAT?
>
> TIA,
>
> --Steve
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