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Even if they just have an index without the full copy it's not that hard to reconstruct a version similar to the original just from the index, as in an inverted
by gst 16y ago
Even if they just have an index without the full copy it's not that hard to reconstruct a version similar to the original just from the index, as in an inverted index you typically do not only store the documents of a term, but also the word number within the document. However, it's not possible to restore the original version exactly, due to things like stemmers.
- sfphotoarts 16y agooften in text indexing the original document is kept for things like snippet generation.