Re: Full text indexing - integrating more DMS features into OGo

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20. Sep 2005, at 20:33 Uhr, David Nalley wrote:
> I was wondering what the thoughts would be towards adding indexing of
> files. I have noticed (and used) Knowledge Tree DMS, and noticed that
> they have packaged separately their file indexing package for indexing
> html, doc, xls, pdf, txt, etc. The ability to search all of the  
> files in
> all of the projects for a keyword would be fascinating. Since the file
> indexer from Knowledge Tree is released under the GPL, it could be
> easily reused. The immediate downsides that I see are that it's  
> written
> in Java (thusly requiring a JRE), and it's designed to interface with
> mysql instead of postgres, though there is work being done on a  
> postgres
> option.

I think the way to go would be Lucene, in our case probably the ObjC  
variant. Notably OGo does not store documents in the database, only  
the metadata.

Also see:
   http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171

Greets,
   Helge
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