full-text indexing of pdf, rtf, txt, html

[Dizzy Haze]

I have a big pile of files on my local machine that are in a variety of
formats - txt, rtf, pdf, html, etc. What I'm looking for is a script
that will crawl through the files and perform simple full-text indexing
on them, and will allow for queries to be executed on the index.

Any recommendations?

thx.

 

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Any recommendations?

http://swish-e.org/ is easy to implement, well documented, and has a
fairly active community around it. It works well on moderate-sized
document collections, but doesn't scale to "huge". No, I can't quantify
that. This is what I use to index my email.

ObPerl: Swish-E comes with Perl bindings.

I've heard good things about Lucene
(http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/), but I haven't tried it myself.

Also:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=text+index

-- Lars

 

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Does this program originate from West L.A. or San Francisco?

I'm sure I'm going to regret this, but what reference am I missing?

-- Lars

 

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Does this program originate from West L.A. or San Francisco?

I'm sure I'm going to regret this, but what reference am I missing?

Oh, duh, never mind. Slow on the uptake.

-- Lars