/tags/xapian/ Recent content in Xapian on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:31:17 +0000 /2012/04/09/local-search-engine/ Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:31:17 +0000 /2012/04/09/local-search-engine/ <p>There are times when you would want to have a <a class="zem_slink" title="Local search (Internet)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_search_%28Internet%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">local search engine</a> capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.</p> <p>You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.</p> <p>download omega from <a href="http://xapian.org/download">http:// xapian.org/download</a></p> <pre class="brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1">yum install xapian libuuid-devel</pre> <p>And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the <a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/OmegaExample">instructions</a>.</p> <figure style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fed_search.png" target="_blank"><img class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" title="Federated Search Engine Diagram" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Fed_search.png/300px-Fed_search.png" alt="Federated Search Engine Diagram" width="300" height="204" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Federated Search Engine Diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia)</figcaption></figure> <p>Create index using command omindex<br> and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.</p>