topic Re: Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches in Alfresco Archive

Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches

ggeisen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:48:35 GMT

Will Alfresco index the text content of drawings to be searchable? If not and I have my own dxf2txt utility, can it be utilized to populate the index tables?

Re: Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches

ediez — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:14:30 GMT

Hi ggeisen,

I have the same need as you do.

Have you ever found out if the indexing is supported by Alfresco?

Best regards,
Esteban DÃez

Re: Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches

dozyarmadillo — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:23:38 GMT

Sorry guys - I don't have an answer for you but what you've asked for should be possible. After all Alfresco uses Lucene for indexing/querying content, and since Lucene can index any text and you've got a parser to read from CAD then it should be possible. If there's no further response to this thread then you may have to look at the Alfresco source code to find out how Alfresco invokes parsers & analyzers to index MS Office content, etc.

Good luck

Re: Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches

mikeh — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:49:35 GMT

This wiki article should point you in the right direction:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction

Thanks,
Mike