There's a JIRA ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4722 ) describing a highlighter which returns term positions rather than snippets, which could then be mapped to the matching words in the indexed document (assuming that it's stored or that you have a copy elsewhere).
-Simon On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Damien Dykman <damien.dyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Solr 5 (or 4), is there an easy way to retrieve the list of words to > highlight? > > Use case: allow an external application to highlight the matching words > of a matching document, rather than using the highlighted snippets > returned by Solr. > > Thanks, > Damien >
