Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-04 Thread Larry Cook
Bill Sconce wrote: Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? Back in April I did a quick internet search for search engines. Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html) seems to to be the most

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-04 Thread Greg Rundlett
Bill Sconce wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? Hi Bill, I use mnogosearch, a GPL application that is extremely powerful. External parsers can be used to index any type of document (assuming

Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Sconce
Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... TIA -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:21:01PM -0400, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... Google.com does this, and Google makes search

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Coutu
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:21, Bill Sconce wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... TIA -Bill I've deployed WebGlimpse for a client's

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since they began - they alienated part of their audience when they went from something resembling FOSS to a

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since they began - they alienated part of their audience when they went from something resembling FOSS to a

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Marc Nozell
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:21, Bill Sconce wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? How about namazu? For debian users, use: apt-get install namazu2 I've been using it on my laptop (mostly