GSoC 2016: Text-Extraction Libraries in Omega

[James Aylett]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:31:34PM -0800, Philip Chung wrote:

> I've been looking at the project-ideas list and I'm interested in making
> Omega use libraries instead of external programs.
> 
> Right now I'm trying to get Olly's patch that was linked there to apply
> to the current master. From that point I would see if I could generalize
> this to other types of extraction.
> 
> I was thinking of different executables for each type of extraction. Is
> this a good way to go, or is there a better way to go about it?

Hi, Philip. At the moment we use different executables for each type;
and we'll want to continue doing so. The project is more about using
libraries in preference, so we don't have to invoke an external
program for common file formats -- which should improve indexing
speed.

I'm not sure how you propose generalising use of a library for
extraction; how would a user configure omindex to know how to call the
relevant library functions?

J

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