Re: [Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 07/04/12 08:45, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> > 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.

Indeed.

> > > 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

No. If the PDF stores a scanned image of some text, we can't extract 
that. IT's also quite uncommon.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.