Re: Lucene and pdf integration

Alex McLintock wrote:

> At 10:02 11/03/03, you wrote:
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>> Michi
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>> 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.
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>
> 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.


yeah, that's right, but as you say yourself, you need FOP and Cocoon.

In many clients projects we do for instance, we just have to accept the 
PDFs created by somebody else,
but they certainly need to be indexed as well.

Thanks

Michael

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