There's a JIRA ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4722 )
describing a highlighter which returns term positions rather than
snippets, which could then be mapped to the matching words in the indexed
document (assuming that it's stored or that you have a copy elsewhere).
-Simon
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Damien Dykman
wrote:
> In Solr 5 (or 4), is there an easy way to retrieve the list of words to
> highlight?
>
> Use case: allow an external application to highlight the matching words
> of a matching document, rather than using the highlighted snippets
> returned by Solr.
>
> Thanks,
> Damien
>
