Hi, I'm thinking in writing a extractor for epub and maybe fb2 formats so this mail fits with my intentions.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Vishesh Handa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone > > As your guys might remember, we moved away from Strigi for the 4.10 > release. Our solution however, still does not support any document formats > apart from PDF. We need to change that and support other formats. There are > 2 possible ways to go about this - > > 1. We use Okular which supports a number of popular formats > 2. We write our own indexers by using the relevant library. > > (1) would lead to yet another abstraction, and someone will need to split > the Okular code base. Currently the core parts are quite entangled with the > ui parts. I've looked over their code and it doesn't seem like a small task. > > (2) would require us to write a large number of extractors. I was thinking > of organizing some kind of online sprint in order to do this. Writing an > extractor is very simple, and I have been getting a large number of > requests of people interested in Nepomuk. This might be a nice way to get > them started. (Though we do have tasks + juniors as well). Maybe I could > organize something over irc where we make everyone compile nepomuk (People > seem to be struggling with this), and write a simple extractor plugin. > > The advantage of (2) is that it might require a lot of hand holding, but > it would be better in the long run, specially since we might get some > contributors out of it. (1) would require someone experienced to work with > the Okular team. > > Any comments? Opinions? > > > -- > Vishesh Handa > > _______________________________________________ > Nepomuk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk > > -- Best wishes, Ignacio
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