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Post details: A parody of Google Desktop search :)

2004-11-08

22:00:19, Categories: Knowledge Management

A parody of Google Desktop search :)

BTW - does anyone know and/or can comment about good alternatives for Google Desktop that also work with PDFs, ... formats? Linux applications - both desktop GUI and text-only apps are fine as well.

Also - what are the applications that extract metadata from PDF and/or convert PDF to text files?
Text files can then be indexed using a search engine capable of indexing plain-text...

Currently I've heard of DocSearcher (for Java), mnoGoSearch (sf.net page here), Medusa (for Gnome) and EnFish (for Windows). And - how does one launches DocSearcher once it's downloaded? I could not find where to start, not the documentation to tell me how.

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Comment from: Jeen [Visitor]

A possible nice alternative would be Aduna AutoFocus Personal. Java-based, supported under Linux, and uses RDF technology internally.

Permalink 2004-11-09 @ 07:27

Comment from: Danny [Visitor] · http://dannyayers.com

Heh, I like it!

Some other tools linked from :
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2004/10/16/desktop-search-update-and-a-ramble/

I've not really got much further with Kowari, but it does have Lucene search engine embedded so there may be low-hanging fruit there...

Permalink 2004-11-09 @ 12:58

Comment from: Max Völkel [Visitor] · http://www.xam.de

I use "Docco", written in Java, funny display of search results. Uses lucene and indexes pdf, MS-files, text.

Permalink 2004-11-09 @ 18:03

Comment from: Mervyn [Visitor] · http://www.longhorned.com/

The newer version of GDS indexes PDFs and a bunch of other files. It also enables developers to write their own plugins to extend GDS to all file types.

Permalink 2005-03-25 @ 10:36

Comment from: James [Visitor]

I saw that you have a page that discusses patent-related resources at http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2004/11/08/a_parody_of_google_desktop_search. I wanted to suggest adding www.freepatentsonline.com to the page. This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US PTO). It is by far the best free patent searching site.

Permalink 2006-08-05 @ 23:26

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