[Zope] Serving and Searching PDF's and Word Docs

[a.wacknitz@francotyp.com]

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> I have a client who wants to distribute learning materials via the
> web and  are looking to move their PDF's and Word docs to a
> database .
> Has anyone used Zope for this ?
Not exactly this but I store documents (word, excel, project) in a
revision control system.
I have written a python function that checks out and returns
documents. But this only works with Merant's PVCS VM and searching
within these documents in not needed...

> Would you use a third party database ?
Relational databases have some problems with these data types. They
are usually stored as binary large objects (BLOBs). This results in
some impacts on SQL. You cannot use most of the SQL features for
projection and such sort of thing.
Maybe you should look for a specialized database system. The problem
will then be to get an appropriate database adaptor for Zope...


> What about searching the documents ?
As mentioned above normal RDBMS will propably have some restrictions.
I cannot image how to search a document within an RDBMS for a special
word or phrase.

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Richard

HTH
Andreas

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