[Nepomuk] [RFC] File Indexers

[Vishesh Handa]

Hey everyone

Just a quick update - I've implemented extractors for open office and
Microsoft office 2007 formats. I'll probably implement the epub and mobi
formats as well or ask someone to do it.

Office 97 (OLE) is harder. I will probably use wvWare for that, but it
looks very scary and I'm not looking forward to it.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:

> Hey everyone
>
> As your guys might remember, we moved away from Strigi for the 4.10
> release. Our solution however, still does not support any document formats
> apart from PDF. We need to change that and support other formats. There are
> 2 possible ways to go about this -
>
> 1. We use Okular which supports a number of popular formats
> 2. We write our own indexers by using the relevant library.
>
> (1) would lead to yet another abstraction, and someone will need to split
> the Okular code base. Currently the core parts are quite entangled with the
> ui parts. I've looked over their code and it doesn't seem like a small task.
>
> (2) would require us to write a large number of extractors. I was thinking
> of organizing some kind of online sprint in order to do this. Writing an
> extractor is very simple, and I have been getting a large number of
> requests of people interested in Nepomuk. This might be a nice way to get
> them started. (Though we do have tasks + juniors as well). Maybe I could
> organize something over irc where we make everyone compile nepomuk (People
> seem to be struggling with this), and write a simple extractor plugin.
>
> The advantage of (2) is that it might require a lot of hand holding, but
> it would be better in the long run, specially since we might get some
> contributors out of it. (1) would require someone experienced to work with
> the Okular team.
>
> Any comments? Opinions?
>
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa
>



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Vishesh Handa
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