Re: Lucene and pdf integration

At 10:02 11/03/03, you wrote:

>Michi
>
>I just noticed that Steve Noels is trying to integrate Lucene into
>Forrest and he wants to index the PDF files. He is planning on using
>http://www.pdfbox.org/ a Java PDF Library that allows access to all of
>the components in a PDF document.

I'd ask whether it is a good idea to index the PDF itself when you could 
alternatively index the XML source for the PDF.... assuming it is generated 
through FOP within Cocoon.

Alex


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