[Xapian-discuss] quick-and-dirty web search for a bunch of PDFs?

[John Pye]

Hi Olly,

I checked the 'rpm -ql xapian-omega' list and I found that there was no
documentation bundled with omega's RPM. Maybe you need to change the way
you're packaging omega? I'll grab the source package and check in there,
in any case. But it would be good if the 'README' file in the RPM
mentioned a URL where the documentation were available.

I'll try the omindex and hopefully that will work fine.

Thanks,

JP

Olly Betts wrote:

>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:16:55PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
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>>I'm a newbie with Xapian. I have just a simple goal of creating a
>>quick-and-dirty web-based fulltext search for a bunch of PDF files that
>>I've collected from various conference CDs.
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>>Is this a use-case that Omega covers, or do I need to use Xapian
>>directly?
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>Omega's "omindex" indexer will index PDF files out of the box (just make
>sure you have pdftotext installed.)
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>>Where can I find some documentation about the capabilities of
>>Omega?
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>In the docs subdirectory of the omega sources!  They get installed in
>/usr/local/share/doc/omega by default, or probably something like
>/usr/share/doc/xapian-omega if you installed from a package.
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>Cheers,
>    Olly
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