Re: Managing all your data

Tarun Dua <[email protected]> Mon, 31 May 2004 14:08:04 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi.devel
Organization Linux Delhi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> You need a document management system, with abilities to index all kinds
> of documents. Currently I dont know of any dedicated FLOSS tool which does
> that. With over a gigabyte of different documents, even I need such a
> tool. But most of the good available ones I once came across have been
> proprietary and expensive ones.
> 
> You can use htdig/swishe to just have indexing I guess.
Add a feature to update the stored document from the Internet/Original
Source if it is  used  often(say once in a month)
htdig does PDF's afaik.(requires some tweaking).
Does it handle zipped,tar+gz archives as well.
HTML+PDF should be the majority of documents.
-Tarun
PS: Better ask google to index your harddrive ;-)
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