Ed - that's a reasonable critique, but the API is practically the same
between the Lucene.Net and Lucene Java. There is a section
contributed by George in the upcoming 2nd edition of Lucene in Action
- it's short and says basically that.
But, rather than buy a commercial search engine, consider Solr!
I don't want to come here and steal any of Lucene.Net's thunder by
mentioning Solr, as no doubt Lucene.Net is the right fit for many
projects. Solr, though, is so much more than just Lucene, providing
enterprisey features (replication, distributed search, facets, and
more) that just can't be trivially/naively built on top of any flavor
of Lucene. And Solr is easy interfaced with .NET as a client. Of
course the hurdle then is "does Solr, a Java-based app, fit into the
operations of your deployment environment?". It's another technology
to add if the shop is purely .NET currently. But then again, it
literally does run everywhere quite easily.
Erik
On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:27 AM, Ed Jones wrote:
My problem with Lucene in Action and all the examples on the
internet is
that they were all in Java and you have to understand exactly what
Java
is doing to understand it all properly. It's for this very reason we
had
to shun using Lucene.net in major projects. I wanted dearly to use it
but the learning curve was far too steep and there appears to be very
very few .net examples of code or help.
Instead we have invested a significant amount of money in buying in a
much more commercial search engine.
I am keeping an eye on the Lucene.net project though in-case it can be
used in other parts of our business, but again the same will apply, we
will need more non Java examples.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Chapman [mailto:ro...@stormid.com]
Sent: 07 January 2010 09:21
To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Question
From what I can remember the book Lucene in Action has a good
section on
indexing documents and PDFs http://www.manning.com/hatcher2/
Roger.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Martz [mailto:benma...@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 January 2010 19:51
To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
Cc: <lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Question
Todd,
I would definitely take Michael's advice to learn more about the
overall issue before you get too far.
A quick answer that may help is Windows does not ship with an iFilter
for PDF built-in. Installing Adobe Reader 8 or higher will install a
decent PDF iFilter.
I am a little surprised by your question though - I assume that you
have access to your own source code and could examine the result from
the iFilter that's being fed to the IndexWriter and compare the
behavior in the TXT case with the behavior in the PDF case?
Cheers,
Ben
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:13, Michael Garski <mgar...@myspace-inc.com>
wrote:
Todd,
You'll need some way to extract the text from the PDF prior to
indexing. I'm not familiar with any packages that can do that but I
have heard of them. You may want to try searching the mailing list
to see if there has been mention of one previously. Lucid
Imagination hosts a great mailing list search tool at
http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd McIndoo [mailto:tmcin...@speedyscan.biz]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:11 AM
To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Question
Sorry if this is duplicate
We are using Lucene.net of version 2.0.0.4. I am trying to search a
document
which contains lots of PDFs. I want to search a document, which
contains a
specific word, using Lucene.net. We are yielding results in text
documents
but not in PDF. Is there something we have to do to be able to
search in PDF
Documents. All ifilters have been installed on the computer so I do
not
think that is the issue.
Regards,
SPEEDY SOLUTIONS
Todd McIndoo
