[Xapian-discuss] Omega indexer and supported file formats

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:58:44AM -0700, Tong Sun wrote:
> | we supply ... an indexing and CGI-based application called omega. The
> | indexer supplied can index HTML, PHP, PDF, PostScript,
> | OpenOffice/StarOffice, OpenDocument, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Word
> | Perfect, RTF, Perl POD documentation, and plain text.
>
> Where can I find more info on this?

In the documentation -- see docs/overview.txt in particular.

> E.g., does the omega-0.9.10.tar.gz
> supports searching all above formats, or I have to setup other helper tools.
> If so, what are they, and how to setup?

Some of the formats require external tools - those required for each
format are documented as above.  Currently they're probed for the first
time a format is encountered during an indexing run.

If you installed from a package, it should suggest you also install the
other tools required (the Debian and Ubuntu ones do, if yours don't I
suggest you report a wishlist bug to whoever maintains them).

Cheers,
    Olly