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Free web-based solution for intranet document search engine?

Here is the situation : we have to offer a customer with a web-based search engine that will make a search for a given string inside a list of documents whose paths are logged in a database.

The supported documents are PDF, Word, Excel, TXT.

So we have 2 options :

  • PHP
  • ASP

Anyone heard of any good open-source solutions regarding this ?

Thanks !

EDIT : The documents are INTRANET only, so this is not a viable solution.

Solution

  • Have you considered Lucene? Whilst Java-bsaed, there are other implementations for your preferred platform of choice.

    Your solution would require 2 parts, an indexer (that would constantly trawl through your DB of documents creating the appropriate indexes) and your search app (which would be web-based and search your index for the appropriate page).

    Lucene seems to be the defacto choice atm. Also, there is plenty of information floating around SO (and enough expert, myself excluded, to help you out if you get stuck!)

    Good luck!