Re: Add (extracted) attachment text to the search index?

Subject: Re: Add (extracted) attachment text to the search index?

Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:55:31 -0800

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: David Bremner, Olaf TNSB

From: Steven Allen


David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> This would require some modifications of notmuch. Either modifying
> lib/index.cc to add the terms at indexing (notmuch new/insert) time, or
> providing some way of adding the terms later. The former actually sounds
> simpler to me.

To do this correctly, you'd want to be able to run an external text
extraction tool (for PDFs, word documents, etc.) so I think the latter
would be better in the long run (it would allow the user to index
attachments in the hooks).
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