Re: [Tracker] Fwd: Possible GSoC project idea

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 22/03/10 17:08, Adrien Bustany wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:13:26 +0000, Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>
> > Extracting text for FTS indexing for PDFs is already done.
>
> But what if I scan a document, without OCR ? I get a PDF with a
> bitmap image inside, and the text is not FTS'ed. Or is it currently ?

Ah I see your point. No that is not supported.

> I not sure the OCR part should be a tracker extractor, I'd rather see
> it as an external module (for obvious performance reasons).

I would have to agree. PDFs generally can have quite a number of images 
in them and I think this would not be too useful in the majority of cases.

> But
> still, it'd be an interesting project. Combined with writeback, you
> could writeback the OCR'd text to the PDF.

That's quite a good idea.

> Well, writing this I
> realize that this should actually be done by evince, which would
> write the text back to the PDF, and Tracker would index it. So yeah,
> nothing to do on Tracker side :)

From your OCR app, you could just update the FTS for the PDF yourselves 
I suppose. :)

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Regards,
Martyn