[Zope] Cataloging external documents (word, pdf, excel...)

[Thierry Florac]

Hi

Actually, I use a modified version of the ExternalFile product ; this
product store file's metadata into ZODB, while the real document is
stored on disk.
I've just created a PrincipiaSearchSource method which retrieve document
text which should be fully indexed, via external commands (pdftotext,
catdoc,...). It actually works quite well with several documents types :
DOC, PDF, PS, XLS, PPT, HTML and RTF (and ASCII files, of course !).

  Thierry


On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 11:27, Igor Leturia wrote:
>   Hi!
> 
>   I would like to know if it is possible to catalog in Zope some
> documents (word, pdf, excel...) that are in the local hard disk, not in
> the ZODB. I've been looking round zope.org and I found some products
> (ZCatalog, Kaivo Document Library, MSWordDocument, etc.), but I am not
> sure if they can catalog external documents and if they can catalog
> non-html documents such as word, excel, pdf, powerpoint, etc. I thought
> I could just ask the list for help, instead of wasting some hours
> installing and trying them. Can anyone help me?
> 
>   Thanks in advance,
> 
> 					Igor Leturia
> 
> 
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