Re: [Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Aaron Whitehouse <lists whitehouse org nz>]

Thanks Ivan!

On 04/04/12 23:50, Ivan Frade wrote:
>  Tracker works *per-user*. It is designed to run inside a user
> session. Each user in the computer has its own databases.
>  That being said, maybe with some adjustments here and there you can
> get what you want. The PDF indexing is not a problem.

> You could create a folder with read/write permissions for both users
> and point tracker to write its files in that folder. 

Excellent, thanks.

> Another option is to put all your files in a folder (visible to all
> users) and let tracker index it per-user. In that case each user will
> have its own databases. Then the information in the database but not
> in the files (E.g. tags added by the user) won't be shared.

That would be good (it would let us index our individual files too), but
it is important to us that we can share the tags. It's a shame that tags
can't be written to the files, like they can with photos.

> > 3) Another feature of OpenKM that appealed was its ability to OCR
> > documents and allow the user to search the full text. Is this possible
> > with Tracker?
>  Yes, we have a PDF extractor. It is not the fastest thing in the
> universe but it should work.

Can the PDF extractor OCR PDF scans that are not already OCRed? It seems
to pull the text out of the PDFs that I have previously OCRed, but not
the ones that have not been OCRed.

Thanks again,

Aaron