That is good to know thank you. Looking at their documentation, their preview seems to show the contents of the index for a particular file and you can transform this using xml. I can see how this would be useful. What I was proposing was a conversion from the binary format to html and including the rich formatting.
On 3/26/07, jafarim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good to know that your devised commercial feature is already offered by Enhydra Snapper as an open-source feature. Check here: http://www.enhydra.org/apps/snapper/index.html On 3/26/07, Ryan Ackley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes I do have plans for adding fast save support and support for more > file formats. The time frame for this happening is the next couple of > months. > > I'm playing with the idea of offering a commercial version. I want to > continue to support the open source community so I want to keep it > open source or free and add value that people would be willing to pay > for. > > Any comments on this are appreciated. One thing I thought of would be > to continue to offer the text extraction as open source but add html > conversion with hit highlighting for a variety of file formats as a > commercial add on. Is this something anyone would pay for? What are > some other pain points of the Lucene community besides text > extraction? > > On 3/25/07, Antony Bowesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using Ryan's textmining in prefence to the POI as internally > TM uses > > POI and the Word6 extractor so handles a greater variety of files. > > > > Ryan, thanks for fixing your site. Do you have any plans/ideas on how > to parse > > the 'fast-saved' files and any ideas on Word files older than the Word 6 > format? > > > > Regards > > Antony > > > > > > Ryan Ackley wrote: > > > As the author of both Word POI and textmining.org, I recommend using > > > textmining.org. POI is for general purpose manipulation of Word > > > documents. textmining's only purpose is extracting text. > > > > > > Also, people recommend using POI for text extraction but the only > > > place I've seen an actual how-to on this is in the "Lucene in Action" > > > book. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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