Re: [Tracker] Fwd: Possible GSoC project idea

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:33 +0000, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
wrote:
> On 21/03/10 21:25, Mukund Raghothaman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been referred here by renke on #evince. The idea is that a
> > "Search by images containing text: " tool will be useful to tracker.
> > Personally I find such an idea awesome, but am worried about its
> > use-cases - how useful/how often?
>
> Well, currently we have tracker-search to do that, unless you're talking

> about a UI application?
>
> > I also request advice on the idea in general. If this were one of
> > several equally good/better ideas, would you be interested in voting
> > for it?
>
> Not off the top of my head.

I think Mukund is thinking about OCR'ing all the images in PDF documents,
and add that to the "full text" part of tracker indexing. So that would be
part of the PDF extractor.

Cheers

Adrien