Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Updating the Search service contract to enable new ways to search

Hi Dave,

though I am not sure if that is the right place here to post but from what I understood it is not possible to enable FTS for any acs object, right? What exactly needs to change to allow FTS for acs objects?

Another feature I once discussed with Malte was the ability to store the content of text-based objects (doc, pdf, html, rtf, ppt...) as text and allow FTS for that.

Do you know what the status or roadmap on these two issues is?

Greetings,
Nima

Oh! Something interesting I found for the latter:

Tom Server
http://tom.library.upenn.edu/convert/tom.html

And the allowed conversions:
http://tom.library.upenn.edu/convert/sofar.html

Basically a Perl application that wraps other apps like lynx, lynx, wvWare, pdf2html, acroread, ps2pdf, txt2html, txt2tex, convert, ppmtogif, xml2html...