On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:30:59PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > > Francesco, > > I, too, would like to archive, index, and search a wide > range of pdf and ps (and perhaps html) documents for > writing and reviewing. > > And, what is the [ ..] action you mention? > > There may be more chance to find a program on linux that > would do (1) wildcard and boolean text search over various > file formats, rather than to (2) set up a database table > on the fly. Anyway, if anyone knows of such a linux > application, please cc: me, as I am not on this list. > > Thanks, Don > Hi folks, there is something that I briefly investigated: xapian www.xapian.org it has a deb, it can read various formats (pdf, html, ....) into its database. Not in debian. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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