This is a very nice start Charlie, I'd warn a bit however, on the value of such previews: automated previews of web-page can be quite far from what users might be remembering a page should look like. In particular all tool pages typically show quite "empty" or "initial" state in such automatic previewers.
For i2geo.net, I searched for such a solution (a tick longer than 6 years ago!) and failed to find a successful one. Instead, we built in a signed applet (yes, this is old) where users could screenshot previews. To my taste, this allows a far far better feeling, but of course, it requires a community approach. Maybe both are needed if there's an infinite budget... Paul > Charlie Hull <mailto:char...@flax.co.uk> > 8 octobre 2015 09:48 > > Hi Lewin, > > We built this feature for another search engine (based on Xapian, > which I doubt many people have heard of) a long while ago. It's > standalone and open source though so should be applicable: > https://github.com/flaxsearch/flaxcode/tree/master/flax_basic/libs/previewgen > > It uses a headless version of Open Office under the hood to generate > thumbbnail previews for various common file types, plus some > ImageMagick for PDF, all wrapped up in Python. Bear in mind this is 6 > years old so some updating might be required! > > Cheers > > Charlie > > > Lewin Joy (TMS) <mailto:lewin_...@toyota.com> > 7 octobre 2015 19:49 > Hi, > > Is there anyway we can implement instant page previews in solr? > Just saw that Google Search Appliance has this out of the box. > Just like what google.com had previously. We need to display the > content of the result record when hovering over the link. > > Thanks, > Lewin > > > >
