Re: Instant Page Previews
On 08/10/2015 09:00, Paul Libbrecht wrote: This is a very nice start Charlie, Thanks! I just hope it's not too elderly to serve as a basis. I'd warn a bit however, on the value of such previews: automated previews of web-page can be quite far from what users might be remembering a page should look like. In particular all tool pages typically show quite "empty" or "initial" state in such automatic previewers. This wasn't for webpages, but rather for content in an enterprise search application - Office files, PDFs etc. It's a common feature in closed source enterprise search engines. For i2geo.net, I searched for such a solution (a tick longer than 6 years ago!) and failed to find a successful one. Instead, we built in a signed applet (yes, this is old) where users could screenshot previews. To my taste, this allows a far far better feeling, but of course, it requires a community approach. Yes...and in an enterprise situation, this will depend on users spending time working on enhancing content, which is a battle seldom won :) Charlie Maybe both are needed if there's an infinite budget... Paul Charlie Hull <mailto:char...@flax.co.uk> 8 octobre 2015 09:48 Hi Lewin, We built this feature for another search engine (based on Xapian, which I doubt many people have heard of) a long while ago. It's standalone and open source though so should be applicable: https://github.com/flaxsearch/flaxcode/tree/master/flax_basic/libs/previewgen It uses a headless version of Open Office under the hood to generate thumbbnail previews for various common file types, plus some ImageMagick for PDF, all wrapped up in Python. Bear in mind this is 6 years old so some updating might be required! Cheers Charlie Lewin Joy (TMS) <mailto:lewin_...@toyota.com> 7 octobre 2015 19:49 Hi, Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the content of the result record when hovering over the link. Thanks, Lewin -- Charlie Hull Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 web: www.flax.co.uk
Re: Instant Page Previews
This is a very nice start Charlie, I'd warn a bit however, on the value of such previews: automated previews of web-page can be quite far from what users might be remembering a page should look like. In particular all tool pages typically show quite "empty" or "initial" state in such automatic previewers. For i2geo.net, I searched for such a solution (a tick longer than 6 years ago!) and failed to find a successful one. Instead, we built in a signed applet (yes, this is old) where users could screenshot previews. To my taste, this allows a far far better feeling, but of course, it requires a community approach. Maybe both are needed if there's an infinite budget... Paul > Charlie Hull <mailto:char...@flax.co.uk> > 8 octobre 2015 09:48 > > Hi Lewin, > > We built this feature for another search engine (based on Xapian, > which I doubt many people have heard of) a long while ago. It's > standalone and open source though so should be applicable: > https://github.com/flaxsearch/flaxcode/tree/master/flax_basic/libs/previewgen > > It uses a headless version of Open Office under the hood to generate > thumbbnail previews for various common file types, plus some > ImageMagick for PDF, all wrapped up in Python. Bear in mind this is 6 > years old so some updating might be required! > > Cheers > > Charlie > > > Lewin Joy (TMS) <mailto:lewin_...@toyota.com> > 7 octobre 2015 19:49 > Hi, > > Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? > Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. > Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the > content of the result record when hovering over the link. > > Thanks, > Lewin > > > >
Re: Instant Page Previews
On 07/10/2015 18:49, Lewin Joy (TMS) wrote: Hi, Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the content of the result record when hovering over the link. Thanks, Lewin Hi Lewin, We built this feature for another search engine (based on Xapian, which I doubt many people have heard of) a long while ago. It's standalone and open source though so should be applicable: https://github.com/flaxsearch/flaxcode/tree/master/flax_basic/libs/previewgen It uses a headless version of Open Office under the hood to generate thumbbnail previews for various common file types, plus some ImageMagick for PDF, all wrapped up in Python. Bear in mind this is 6 years old so some updating might be required! Cheers Charlie -- Charlie Hull Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 web: www.flax.co.uk
Re: Instant Page Previews
On 07/10/2015 18:49, Lewin Joy (TMS) wrote: Hi, Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the content of the result record when hovering over the link. Thanks, Lewin Hi Lewin, We built this feature for another search engine (based on Xapian, which I doubt many people have heard of) a long while ago. It's standalone and open source though so should be applicable: https://github.com/flaxsearch/flaxcode/tree/master/flax_basic/libs/previewgen It uses a headless version of Open Office under the hood to generate thumbbnail previews for various common file types, plus some ImageMagick for PDF, all wrapped up in Python. Bear in mind this is 6 years old so some updating might be required! Cheers Charlie -- Charlie Hull Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 web: www.flax.co.uk
Re: Instant Page Previews
I don't think that particular functionality is anything directly to do with Solr? You will have server component that will index web page (I am guessing) into Solr. That same component can generate preview image. Your frontend UI will get the URL/id from Solr and display the related image. Solr will enable you to find those documents/links quickly, but the rest of pipeline is not something it gives out of the box. Regards, Alex. Solr Analyzers, Tokenizers, Filters, URPs and even a newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 7 October 2015 at 13:49, Lewin Joy (TMS) <lewin_...@toyota.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? > Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. > Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the content of > the result record when hovering over the link. > > Thanks, > Lewin > > > >
Instant Page Previews
Hi, Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the content of the result record when hovering over the link. Thanks, Lewin
