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

[Charlie Hull]

Olly Betts wrote:
> 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

You can also look at our search framework Flax (www.flax.co.uk) and 
specifically Flax Basic, which is a packaged version for Windows, built 
using Python, and using the IFilter parsers.

Charlie
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