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Massimo Variolo
Massimo Variolo

Reputation: 4777

File search engine - where to start?

I have to build a simple file search engine for an intranet (a view with a field for searching pdf, txt, etc. and a view for display best matches). I'm searching for a solution/suggestions:

I'm thinking about Django + Solr (haystack), or Drupal. Are there opensource platforms for this goal?

edit:

I've chose Django + Haystack solution. http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/rich_content_extraction.html?highlight=pdf

Upvotes: 0

Views: 509

Answers (1)

Chris Hawkes
Chris Hawkes

Reputation: 12430

No platforms aside from building django models in a database of your choice. installing django-haystack, solr server etc... register your models with haystack, build your UI (really just two pages/3 views)

It should be a relatively simple process in django.

One views.py file for three pages,

index, search (not even a page, just simply a view that returns results, results (template displays database objects returned by the search view).

With Django you could have this done in 45 minutes if you have experience with Django. Without experience probably several hours, maybe a couple of days if you get hung up.

Upvotes: 1

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