From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T12:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ferret 0.2.1 (port of Apache Lucene to pure ruby)

Hi Kris,

If you want to index these you'll need to write (or acquire) specific
analyzers for the document type. That's how it works in Lucene too.
One solution may be to index the documents with Lucene and use Ferret
to search the indexes.

Cheers,
Dave

On 11/15/05, Kris <iamkris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it support indexing PDFs, Docs and PPT files? If I remember
> correctly this feature is provided in Java Lucene via a project called
> Jakarta POI. It is not a big deal since you already started the ball
> rolling and someone might add these features in time. Kudos to your
> efforts.
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