Hello: I'm investigating Lucene as a replacement for a special-purpose search technology that was developed long before Lucene (or any of the current IR libraries) became available.
The use case involves so-called print streams. Imagine 20,000 statements concatenated into one large file suitable for delivery to a print system. The document formats vary, but include AFP (an IBM printer format), PCL (an HP format), Postscript, PDF, and even "plain-text". The indexing application must track the total page count of the embedded statements. On a hit, the search application must extract and return the [possibly multi-page] statement embedded within the larger print-stream file. How would the search application know (be informed by the Lucene/indexer) the extent of the internal document(s)? I'm not seeing this scenario discussed in forums or books. Does anyone have comments or thoughts on Lucene's applicability as a solution? Thanks. Brad -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Investigating-Lucene-for-Applicability-to--Unusual---Use-Case-tf3917031.html#a11106468 Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
