At UNESCO, we use htdig to index all our WEB sites.
In addition, we use BASIS to index the UNESCO documents. The documents are
in PDF format in the UNESDOC database and are available on INTERNET :
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis
UNESCO has the need to be able to display the part of document in wich the
requested term(s) or expression is. At UNESCO, we call this function "to
display the hits". You can see how it works on
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis : go to "all documents", type "little house"
for "words from text", start search, and select a result in a green box :
you can see, after a small delay, that the PDF document opens in the page
connatining the words "little" or "house" and that these words are
hightlighted. If there are several pages containg these words, you can
browse the highlighted words with the two buttons at the right of the
command buttons.
BASIS has not this functionality, so I had to write the necessary code,
using the indexing capabilities of BASIS.
Now, UNESCO is interrested in the same functionality in htdig for the pdf
documents which are not in UNESDOC. UNESCO could possibily finance the
development that I could do. Then, the result could be put in public domain
as an improvment of htdig. I think that UNESCO needs to be shure that this
functionality will be fully integrated in the htdig projet and will be
mantained and available in future versions of htdig.
I want to know if such a development is of interest for the htdig community,
or if such a functionality is allready under developement. In any case, I
cannot begin to work on the subject before april or may 2001.
Any comments are welcome
Thank you, especially for your patience in reading my poor english
Alain Brion
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UNESCO - PARIS - FRANCE
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