Can Alfresco index drawings (autoCAD, etc) for searches

[ggeisen]

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?

[ediez]

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 Díez

[dozyarmadillo]

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

[mikeh]

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

Thanks,
Mike