"This week I am featuring Strigi, an information extraction subsystem that is being fully deployed for KDE 4.0. KDE has previously had the ability to extract information about files of various types, and has used them in a variety of functional contexts, such as the Properties Dialog. Strigi promises many improvements over the existing versions. Read on for more...
"Strigi is a library that sits at a lower level than KDE. It is written in C++, and is designed to present a series of generic calls that a program can use to find more information about a given file or files. It is in no way tied to KDE except that the development version lives in KDE's SVN repository. It also has search capabilities, which are not really the focus of this article..."
