if you look around the htdig website (www.htdig.org ?), you'll find info on using word2txt pdftotxt and others to make .doc .pdf and so on files searchable by normal search engines - when the search engine finds a file to be indexed, it finds the suitable text converter, executes it, and parses the output.

Ewan

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 23:37, Greg Freemyer wrote:

All,

I've got a Samba fileserver working pretty well, but it would be nice if I could have a web interface that allowed end-users to search for documents on the fileserver.

Sort of like a google interface to the fileserver.

The trouble is that a lot of the docs are in word, acrobat, etc.

Does anyone know an open source search engine that has converters? I've looked at a couple of commercial search engines that would do the job, but I found the prices shockingly high. (i.e. $20K for a 100,000 document index)

Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com

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