kapustabrothers.com – Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene
p. Over at “kapustabrothers.com”:http://www.kapustabrothers.com, Shaun Farrell has started an article series on “Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene”:http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/01/20/indexing-pdf-documents-with-zend_search_lucene/.
bq. I along with many others have been trying and asking how to index and search PDF files. Once Zend released its Framework, which has a port of Java Lucene to PHP, I decided to jump on board and find a way to index and search PDF files.
p. The article is short on the why but heavy on the how. This means of course that there’s lots of source code goodness for you to play with.
p. If you are working with Zend Framework, this is an interesting idea that will give you something to play with while it’s cold outside at night.
About Cal Evans
Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's.
For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around".
Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC.
Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT.
Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers
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January 24, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I will be posting Part II this weekend if not tomorrow. I will also post real world uses on why you may want to do this. Thanks to everyone for checking this out. If you have any questions or comments please post I will be more than happy to help.