Xapian discuss - Dec 2019 - How to build a personal desktop full-text search application with xapian

Hello everyone.


I want to build a personal desktop full-text search application, which needs to
support multiple document formats, such as: Doc, docx, PPT, etc. How to build
with xapian? Thank you.

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 03:05:38PM +0800, ?? wrote:
> I want to build a personal desktop full-text search application, which
> needs to support multiple document formats, such as: Doc, docx, PPT,
> etc. How to build with xapian?
You'll need to use libraries or command line tools to extract text from
those document formats, which you can then index with Xapian.

You might want to look at recoll:

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Cheers,
    Olly