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

[Igor Leturia]

Maybe your solution fits me. Is it a product you have done? Is it
downloadable from zope.org?

Another question I have is this: if I have a big bunch of documents in
the local hard disk, I would have to create in Zope an instance of your
product for each document in the disk? If so, isn't there a way to just
catalog a whole set of external files? (something like doing your
modifications to a ExternalFolder product, instead of a ExternalFile
product).

Thanks in advance,

					Igor Leturia

Thierry Florac wrote:
>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=20
>retrieve document
>text which should be fully indexed, via external commands (pdftotext,
>catdoc,...). It actually works quite well with several=20
>documents types :
>DOC, PDF, PS, XLS, PPT, HTML and RTF (and ASCII files, of course !).