“Lucene is one of the bright lights in the world of open source
software: an industrial-strength package that many companies use
for many diverse purposes. I have been using it for three years to
add indexing and search capabilities to my Java applications,
although Lucene technology is now available for Python, C/C++, and
Perl programmers as well.“This article provides a crash course for using Lucene and
presents an open source project I’ve written that uses Lucene to
index, search, cluster, and categorize documents (Word, PowerPoint,
PDF, HTML, OpenOffice.org, and AbiWord)…”
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