Re: [Exist-development] Scanned PDFs with OCR

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Adam,

> We are currently working on something with Tika and Lucene for eXist-db.
>
> We are creating an extension module for Tika with text extract
> functions, and we are also developing the ability to associate full
> text index metadata with binary documents.

If I didn't say it before: wow.  I just read a bit more about Tika and
am very impressed by what it can do and what you're planning.

In case anyone I followed some links on the Tika site to the blog of
the author of a new book on Tika, and he gives a coupon code for
getting 50% off on the book:

http://baron.pagemewhen.com/item/71/

The book's homepage is http://manning.com/mattmann/.

Joe