Re: [Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Aaron Whitehouse <lists whitehouse org nz>]

Thanks all, that's very helpful.

On 25/04/12 06:40, Martyn Russell wrote:
> 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.

It would be really handy for me if there was a configuration option for 
Tracker that let you change the Tracker database location for a 
particular folder or mount point (ie, all normal folders were indexed in 
the normal place, but all documents in /mount/shared were tagged/indexed 
in /mount/shared/.Tracker). I assume that this is not currently possible?

> > 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.

Thanks. That's interesting, as it is actually something that I come 
across a lot. I've always scanned anything multi-page as PDFs (TIFs are 
quite hard to work with) and so do all of my clients. Also, our 
electronic fax system converts all incoming faxes to PDFs (with each 
page a simple JPG scan of the page).

Regards,

Aaron