doc-parser-searcher

doc-parser-searcher

Enhance Your Document Management with Powerful Document Indexing and Searching

The doc-parser-searcher is an essential tool designed to streamline the process of indexing and searching through your documents. By leveraging the robust capabilities of two stellar Java libraries, this tool enhances your ability to manage content efficiently:

• Apache Lucene (https://lucene.apache.org/): A high-performance, full-featured text search engine library that allows for advanced searching of text.
• Apache Tika (https://tika.apache.org/): A powerful library that extracts text and metadata from countless file types.

Key Features

• Flexible Document Handling: Simply select a folder containing your documents, and the tool will process and index them, enabling instantaneous searching through their content.
• Server Mode: The primary mode of operation, where the tool runs as a server, indexing your documents and reindexing after a configurable interval for up-to-date content retrieval.
• Comprehensive Query Capabilities: Utilize Lucene’s query parser syntax to craft precise search queries, supporting stemming, phrase searches, wildcard searches, boolean queries, and more:
  • Simple Searches: Input a word for quick results, leveraging stemming rules.
  • Phrase Searches: Enclose phrases in quotes for exact matches.
  • Wildcard Searches: Use ? and * to create flexible search patterns.
  • Boolean Searches: Combine terms using AND, OR, and NOT for complex queries.

Configuration Flexibility

Customize your setup with ease by modifying key configuration parameters:

parser.parseDirectory=. # Starting point for parsing documents
parser.dataDirectory=. # Directory to save index data
parser.interval=60 # Reindexing interval in minutes
server.port=8080 # Port configuration for server operations

• The server allows for remote connections, ensuring seamless accessibility. Simply use the IP 127.0.0.1 by default, with options to change as needed.

Effortless Indexing

Enjoy efficient processing as the tool maintains a hash map tracking each file’s last modified date, ensuring that only altered documents are re-indexed, leading to a swift user experience.

User-Friendly OCR Integration

Unlock additional capabilities with OCR support by integrating with Tesseract OCR and customizing your Tika configuration. This feature brings your scanned documents into the searchable realm while allowing the option for slower operations when needed.

Example Use Case

Imagine indexing a library of over 100,000 documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, etc.): a process that may take a couple of hours but enables lightning-fast search results (within 100 ms to 1 second per query).

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doc-parser-searcher is not just a tool; it's your gateway to effective document management, ensuring you can find the information you need when you need it.