Re: Indexing text, pdf, .doc

FROM : Joseph Heck
DATE : Sat Nov 02 01:30:18 2002

It would require more setup and programming effort, but you might also
consider Lucene (java/Apache). I'm not immediately aware of something
to scan MSWord files and index their contents, but I'd suspect such an
addition has been made for lucene, and it's indexing and
full-text-search mechanisms are quite advanced.

-joe

On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 04:17  PM, Michael Johnston wrote:

> 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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