Uhmmm, I can contribute something which does a pretty decent job if anyone's interested...
Just have to clean it up a little... Regards, Kelvin ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:10 AM Subject: Re: indexing and searching different file formats > Andrew Libby wrote: > > > and the text needs to be retrieved for indexing. An extreeme example is > > a PDF which has a considerably complicated document format. > > The PJ library from www.etymon.com provides a pretty complete and > easy-to-use API for getting info from PDF docs. It wouldn't be too hard > to write a PDF indexer for Lucene using this library. The main challenge > would be guessing word boundaries in strings where spaces have been > replaced with explicit shift values by the formatter. > > Cheers, > > Eliot > -- > W. Eliot Kimber, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Consultant, ISOGEN International > > 1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240 > Austin, TX 78752 Phone: 512.656.4139 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
