On 08/10/2015 09:00, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
This is a very nice start Charlie,
Thanks! I just hope it's not too elderly to serve as a basis.
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.
This wasn't for webpages, but rather for content in an enterprise search
application - Office files, PDFs etc. It's a common feature in closed
source enterprise search engines.
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.
Yes...and in an enterprise situation, this will depend on users spending
time working on enhancing content, which is a battle seldom won :)
Charlie
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
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