Links

• http://lucene.apache.org/

• http://lucenebook.com/

• .NET_

• Search Engine Watch

Issues

• http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE

Alternatives

Also see Competitors (below)…

• MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text search engine for large document collections written in Java.

• http://sphinxsearch.com/

  • Sphinx search introduction

  • http://xapian.org/

Articles

• Delve inside the Lucene indexing mechanism including Improving the indexing performance.

Competitors

Also see Alternatives (above)…

• IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition

• IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition

Did you mean

• org.apache.lucene.search.didyoumean

• Did You Mean: Lucene?

• Spelling Checker using Lucene

Faceted

• Faceted Metadata Search and Browse

History

• The Lucene Search Engine, Doug Cutting, 16 June, 2000

• Lucene - Doug Cutting, November 24, 2004

Index Accessor

• lucene-index-accessor

Monitor

• LucidGaze for Lucene Monitor and improve your Lucene search performance.

StopWords

• Stopword List

• Key to Effective Searches, Dealing with Stopwords

• To Stopword or Not to Stopword?

Snowball

• RE: [Snowball-discuss] Stop word lists

Text Extractor

• Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.

• Aperture, Extract full-text and metadata from many common file formats Getting started (Appears to use Java 1.5)

• OpenXML4j is a complete Java framework supporting Open Package Convention,

• Office Open XML (WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML and shared specs like DrawingML).

html

• Parsing HTML with java:

  • HTMLEditorKit

  • JTidy

  • HTML Parser

  • HTML Cleaner For Maven instructions: Maven repository notes.

Microsoft

• wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files.

• catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text

• catdoc, xls2csv and catppt

• Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux

• Using Java to Crack Office 2007

OpenOffice

• JOOConverter automates conversions between office document formats using OpenOffice.org

• file2xliff4j is a set of Java classes to convert HTML, Word, Excel, OpenOffice.org Text, PowerPoint, RTF and MIF documents to XLIFF File Format.

pdf

• http://www.jpedal.org/

Projects

• The Compass Framework is a first class open source Java framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics to your application stack decoratively.

• Enhydra Snapper - Fulltext Indexing and Search

• Hibernate Search brings the power of full text search engines to the persistence domain model and Hibernate experience, through transparent configuration (Hibernate Annotations) and a common API. Might be here now… http://www.hibernate.org/410.html

• Hibernate Annotations includes a package of annotations that allows you to mark any domain model object as indexable and have Hibernate maintain a Lucene index of any instances persisted via Hibernate.

• Kowari is an Open Source, massively scalable, transaction-safe, purpose-built database for the storage, retrieval and analysis of metadata.

• DBSight is a highly customisable full-text search platform for any relational database.

• NetSearch - the Enterprise Search Solution from Ardentia

• Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP APIs, caching, replication, and a web administration interface.

• LIUS is an indexing Java framework based on the Jakarta Lucene project. The LIUS framework indexes : MsWord, MsExcel, MsPowerPoint, RTF, PDF, XML, HTML, TXT, OpenOffice suite, ZIP files, MP3, VCard, Latex and JavaBeans.

• Tika, a generic document parsing framework

Sample

• sample-lucene-did-you-mean

• sample-lucene-count-unique-terms

Upgrade

• Lucene 2.4 in 60 seconds

Word List

• Kevin’s Word List Page