thank you for the reply, I knew the answer but was compelled to ask anyway.
CAD files like AutoCad/ProE/CaTia do contain some useful text and it is
possible to get at that and
index it. But mostly it's vectors and there is not much a text engine can do
with a vectors.
thanks again.
jim s
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erick Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: CAD files, Images
No, you can only index text. It's the same thing as indexing HTML
documents or XML documents. You index "important stuff" from
the guts of the doc.
So, if you can get some text out of these docs, you can index *that*,
possibly along with page information that allows you to, say, display
the relevant page in the original CAD app.
But there's nothing in core Lucene that just takes a CAD doc and
"does magic" to index it that I know of.
Erick
On 5/23/07, jim shirreffs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possibe to index CAD formats such as AutoCad or CGM? I know some
commecail products (excalaber) claim to be able to do that? If so what
about
TIFF?
thanks
jim s
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