Lucene doesn't actually do any text extraction you have to provide it the text that you want indexed. I've done an overview of what Lucene is and isn't on my website - http://www.aaron-powell.com/lucene-net-overview
Aaron Powell Umbraco Core Team Member | FunnelWeb Team Member http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | MSN: aaz...@hotmail.com -----Original Message----- From: lucene lucene [mailto:luc...@greatminds.co.in] Sent: Saturday, 19 February 2011 7:17 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Index AutoCAD files I am relatively new to lucene. I can use the dwg ifilter to extract the text from the AutoCAD files. Is there any way I can add this Ifilter into lucene so that the content is converted to text? If not, can you please help me by explaining how it can be done? Thanks in Advance. Regards Vignesh On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Prescott Nasser <geobmx...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > If you can extract text from them, then it shouldn't be a problem. > > Lucene doesn't do the job of extracting the text. For that you'd have > to find something else. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:03:00 +0530 > > Subject: Index AutoCAD files > > From: luc...@greatminds.co.in > > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > > > > Hi team, > > > > Is there a way lucene.Net can index AutoCAD files - "*.dwg" files? > > > > If so, please let me know. > > > > Can you please provide some insight on the same? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance.. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Vignesh >