to search MS office documents you must first be able to a: access the documents through java with apis like POI etc....
b: convert the documents to something that is accessable through java like xml, etc... the best way is to convert as the java api's for MSOffice documents still are under development mvh karl �ie On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:48, Rama Krishna wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build a search engine which search in MS Word, excel, ppt > and adobe pdf. I am not sure whether i can use Lucene for this or not. pl. > help me out in this regard. > > > Regards, > Ramakrishna > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
