Lucene indexes only text(string) data.(It is not an complete desktop app. It just provides a framework for writing your own search) To index word,pdf etc you have to convert them to text before indexing. Googling for windows' Ifilter interface, Pdfbox, word2text may be a good starting point.
DIGY -----Original Message----- From: Pradipta Nayak [mailto:pradipta.na...@convergenttec.com] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:50 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: net a application that search on desktop (office 2003 and 2007 and pdf and other files Hi I am writing on behalf of Convergent Technogies, Gurgaon,india I gone through one of your Application "Desktop Search Application: Part 1"[ http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?aid=10692 <http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?aid=10692&av =49782> &av=49782] and use that Feel it very good for search but it's not able search the office 2007 files and pdf files . Actually we want it for our client if it fits to our requirement then we can processed for licensed version. If other than this application there are some other who can deliver more please mention . Kindly put some demo and sample code so that we can check completely . Thanks & Regards Pradipta Nayak Senior Team Member Convergent Technologies Gurgaon, India +91-124-4062773 (Work) | +91-124-4063773 (Work) | +91 9953728128(Cell)