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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?

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

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

  2. 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.