[TYPO3-dam] does Indexed search index pdf files with DAM enabled

[Daniel Thomas]

Hi Pascal,

> As far as I know, there are no relationship between the DAM and the  
> indexed
> search... The DAM only tries to retrieve some metadata from the  
> files with
> tools such as catdoc, pdftotext etc...
> So you can get generally get the header of the file, the language  
> and an extract
> of the content. But for PDF, files are often protected against  
> reading content
> and the DAM can only retrieve basic information.
>
> BUT there is no way for the DAM to index a document in the  
> indexed_search. But I
> think this should be the logical evolution!!
>

Could you outline your idea here.
What exactly should indexed_search do?
So far it is closely wedded to the TYPO3 page or page-hash paradigm.  
Both the indexing mechanism and the frontend-search functionality are  
built to support an output format and not a data storage format.

Personally, I see no use in fulltext-indexing of DAM records if this  
is not combined with a major concept change in the way the  
indexed_search operates or if it comes to that a different search  
engine. In the end the indexed_search plugin would have to evolve,  
not the DAM.

However, I am not sure if this is a good solution for TYPO3. The  
primary value of the indexed_search is that with its "format- 
blindness" it integrates easily with virtually every output  a plugin  
could produce. The downside is of course lack of precision and  
redundancy in search results. If you wanted to have a search engine  
which is not format blind, but which would connect indexed  
information with unique occurances in the database or file system  
both the indexer and the search engine would be much more complex and  
harder to use.

Regards

Daniel

> br
> Pascal
>
> Selon Sacha Vorbeck <Vorbeck at moduleBox.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody know if the indexed search will index PDF files when  
>> using
>> DAM? Would be interesting to know.
>>
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>> thank you - all the best,
>> Sacha
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