On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:24:25PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > >I think the answer is: yes that's possible, but not desirable. > > > >I'm not sure what the end-user use would be for searching, say, all > >the > >JPEG images, would be. > > I was only thinking the text or text-like objects. Within a patient > the use case could be a diagnostic consideration that got mentioned > in a report but which was not at the time given serious consideration > and/or was missed and therefore not coded as meta-data. Yes, that's a use case. It is indeed preferable to be able to find matches for searches even inside blobs-happening-to-be-text. To facilitate this my suggestion is to store textual representations of blobs (be it the blob itself once again or be it an OCR translation of a scanned letter) in a place that's searched for matches, too. Which is blobs.doc_desc.
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