I would prefer to see a good open-source framework pulling together a
collection of document parsers but which isn't tied directly to Lucene
(that binding would be via *another* project).
If the parser framework extracted document text in a standard
document-and-application-neutral form (XML/Java object?) this could
underpin *any* IR/IE project wanting to make use of the parser
functionality e.g. the GATE framework for example. That would ultimately
make a much more valuable piece of functionality and is the approach
taken by Stellent (used by many search engines, recently purchased by
Oracle).
Cheers
Mark
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