On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:32:09PM +0200, helix84 wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Tom Autry <tom.au...@coffingco.com> wrote: > > Unless I’ve missed something, it seems that the filter-media only works on > > files that need to be extracted first (i.e., from word, pdf, etc.) and > > doesn’t do any work on files that are already TEXT. Therefore, the > > information from these files do not get put into the search indices and are > > not found. I believe I’ve seen some configurations that use the HTML > > extractor on TEXT files but this seems to fail on larger TEXT files. Has > > anyone else had this problem or suggestions on a different media filter > > plugin to put a copy of these into the TEXT bundle so that they are properly > > searched? > > Interesting problem, that didn't occur to me. > > However, although it's not intuitive, according to documentation the > MS Word filter should be able to filter plain text files: > "Word Text Extractor > org.dspace.app.mediafilter.WordFilter > extracts the full text of Microsoft Word or Plain Text documents for > full text indexing. (Uses the "Microsoft Word Text Mining" tools.)" > > Can you verify that? > > If it doesn't work, we should probably write such "identity > transformation" filter (file a Jira issue). > As a workaround, you can just copy the text file to the "TEXT" bundle > and run index-update.
I don't understand: why would there be any need to extract plain text from a bitstream that's already plain text? Just index it. The point of text extraction is to create a plain-text bitstream for the indexer to digest. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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