Re: [Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Adrien Bustany <adrien bustany org>]

Le 2012-04-04 14:50, Ivan Frade a ÃcritÂ:
> Hi,
>
>  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.
>
>  More answers below:
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Aaron Whitehouse
> <lists whitehouse org nz> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a few questions about Tracker that I was hoping you could 
> > answer:
> > 1) Would we be able to store the documents on the server and access 
> > them
> > from another computer? I understand that Tracker stores its index
> > separately from the files, so it wouldn't be possible to simply 
> > share
> > the "Documents" directory across the network and point both Tracker
> > instances to it.
>
>  Tracker stores its information under ~/.local/share/tracker and
> ~/.cache, but you can modify this with environment variables.
>
>   You could create a folder with read/write permissions for both 
> users
> and point tracker to write its files in that folder. Then when 
> tracker
> boots (in any user session on the computer) they will use the same
> files. This could work as long as you don't have more than one user
> logged at the same time.
>
>  Maybe some adjustments in the file permissions are needed after
> creating the database, because the first time it will have only user
> permissions.
>
> > 2) We are currently intending to have just one laptop, so could 
> > store
> > the files on the laptop (in a folder accessible by both users on the
> > laptop). Would two users then be able to use the same sets of tags 
> > etc?
>
>  If they share the database with the trick above yes. Tags are in the
> database.
>
>  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.
>
> > 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.

However, Tracker will not peform any OCR by itself.

> > 4) Most of our documents were OCRd when we scanned them and are
> > searchable PDFs. I assume that Tracker could index these like any 
> > other
> > PDF. Does this sound right?
>
>  Yes. Tracker will find the PDF, try to extract the text and index 
> it.
> There are few options to enable/disable/fine-tune it.
>
>  Regards,
>
> Ivan
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