Wow,<br><br>great step for making something like desktop and email search available with ruby and ferret. I'll definitly try this out. Thank you so much!<br><br>Just as a pointer for something I've used for email searching before I've converted to gmail:
<a href="http://zoe.nu/">http://zoe.nu/</a><br><br>Regards<br><br>Jan Prill<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stuart Rackham</b> <<a href="mailto:srackham@methods.co.nz">srackham@methods.co.nz
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi<br><br>I've written ferret_helper.rb (FerretHelper module) containing wrapper
<br>methods<br>for converting PDF, HTML, Open Document and Microsoft Word files to<br>plain text<br>for the Ferret index analysers.<br><br>To help test it I wrote a simple ff.rb (Ferret Finder) command-line<br>utility to<br>
index and search document files.<br><br>You can download the code at <a href="http://www.methods.co.nz/ff/">http://www.methods.co.nz/ff/</a><br><br><br>Cheers, Stuart<br>--<br>Stuart Rackham<br><br>--<br>Posted via <a href="http://www.ruby-forum.com/">
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