Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the build-a-better-boss-trap dept.

Blinocac writes "I am organizing the IT documentation for the agency I work for, and we would like to make a searchable document index that would render results based on meta tags placed in the documents, which include everything from Word files, HTML, Excel, Access, and PDF's." What methods or tools have others seen that work? Anything to avoid?

7 of 216 comments (clear)

  1. Gee I don't know.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're the one gettin' paid, you figure it out.

    1. Re:Gee I don't know.. by tha_mink · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's true. I finish a double major in University, worked in a relevent field the whole time, have excellent references, and now I can't find work... Hire me and I will do this for you. Perhaps it's your grammar?
      --
      You'll have that sometimes...
  2. BOFH by wilymage · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/05/the_bofh_content_management_system/

    --
    The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
  3. Upload it to the web by omgamibig · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let google do the indexing!

  4. Re:Livelink by Ajehals · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are in marketing aren't you?

    (I'm sold anyway)

  5. Re:Lucene by mynickwastaken · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the Nutch! web site: "Search this site with Google" ;-)

  6. Re:Lucene by Thuktun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, they have. In my previous job we had to search 2 terrabytes [...] ...of good ole down-to-earth data.