[Resending after subscription] Hi, ,----- | we supply ... an indexing and CGI-based application called omega. The | indexer supplied can index HTML, PHP, PDF, PostScript, | OpenOffice/StarOffice, OpenDocument, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Word | Perfect, RTF, Perl POD documentation, and plain text. `----- Where can I find more info on this? E.g., does the omega-0.9.10.tar.gz supports searching all above formats, or I have to setup other helper tools. If so, what are they, and how to setup? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Olly Betts
2007-May-03 19:23 UTC
[Xapian-discuss] Omega indexer and supported file formats
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:58:44AM -0700, Tong Sun wrote:> | we supply ... an indexing and CGI-based application called omega. The > | indexer supplied can index HTML, PHP, PDF, PostScript, > | OpenOffice/StarOffice, OpenDocument, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Word > | Perfect, RTF, Perl POD documentation, and plain text. > > Where can I find more info on this?In the documentation -- see docs/overview.txt in particular.> E.g., does the omega-0.9.10.tar.gz > supports searching all above formats, or I have to setup other helper tools. > If so, what are they, and how to setup?Some of the formats require external tools - those required for each format are documented as above. Currently they're probed for the first time a format is encountered during an indexing run. If you installed from a package, it should suggest you also install the other tools required (the Debian and Ubuntu ones do, if yours don't I suggest you report a wishlist bug to whoever maintains them). Cheers, Olly