Hello
I am trying to use a TermFreqVector to get a count of all words in a Document as follows: // Search. int hitsPerPage = 10; IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(index, true); TopScoreDocCollector collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(hitsPerPage, true); searcher.search(q, collector); ScoreDoc[] hits = collector.topDocs().scoreDocs; // Display results. int docId = 0; System.out.println("Found " + hits.length + " hits."); for (int i = 0; i < hits.length; ++i) { docId = hits[i].doc; Document d = searcher.doc(docId); System.out.println((i + 1) + ". " + d.get("title")); IndexReader trd = IndexReader.open(index); TermFreqVector tfv = trd.getTermFreqVector(docId, "title"); System.out.println(tfv.getTerms().toString()); System.out.println(tfv.getTermFrequencies().toString()); } The code is very rough as its only an experiment but I'm under the impression that the getTerms and getTermFrequencies methods for a TermFreqVector should allow each word and its frequency in the document to be displayed. All I get though is a NullPointerError. The index consists of a single document made up of a simple string: IndexWriter w = new IndexWriter(index, analyzer, true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED); addDoc(w, "Lucene for Dummies"); And the queryString being used is simply "dummies". Thanks Martin O'Shea.