[Xapian-discuss] How to use Xapian to build a Desktop Search Application in Win32 platform?

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:10:20PM -0500, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> You will have to write your own file parsers to retrieve the contents and
> metadata about the files and what it is inside them that might be
> interesting. There are some open source libraries for parsing popular
> formats like RDF, PDF, .DOC, .XLS etc.

See also the source code to Omega's omindex indexer (omindex.cc for
starters) which uses various external filter programs to extract text
from different file formats.

Cheers,
    Olly