crieff

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   by crieff 9y ago

   WRT to windows 8 and 10 (that is no windows 7 or earlier) this is essentially a windows store app when written using html, css, js instead of c#. It does have a more limited api than a conventional desktop app since it is sandboxed, but usi
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   by crieff 10y ago

   Thanks, I had missed SOLR and TIKA even though I had investigated Lucene. One criterion I had for a lightweight solution was to not require Java. No problem with Java, just that it is a big dependency and my perception is that it is not a c
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   by crieff 10y ago

   There are some applications that will do a full text search of pdfs across directories, but seem geared towards server rather than desktop, with commensurate levels of cost and complexity. Conceptually you could use image magik and lucene t
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   by crieff 10y ago

   Had a library of about 800 articles that I read on a laptop with a large format external monitor. Related question: doing the above had some pain points so I wrote an app to give me the ability to give files and directories human readable n