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Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by ChuckMcM on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:52PM (#19048724)
My goal is exactly that, usability without me present :-).

The tools for processing PDFs into searchable text have a lot of warts. For a while IBM was offering a free Watson service to do this (now its part of Watson Discovery) which has some warts. I did manage a set of perl scripts that would post process the statements that I downloaded from the bank into CSV files, but I would still like to pull tabular data out of PDF book scans to make the data they provide more useful.

I have a simple frontend based on the perl Mojolicious module which Blekko had developed as part of another project but my indexing tools are still quite primitive. Simple bi-gram and tri-grams, and a growing synonym index. I don't give it enough queries to use my own traffic for ranking feedback. So basically everything is nearly equal rank. Basically I am about to the AltaVista level of search capability :-).

The vision is it just runs as a server and anyone on the same network can access it like a web service an pull up documents (and in the future media) of interest.

Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by aperrien on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:35PM (#19064315)
For my eBooks, I use a java app called DocFetcher. It's indexing and word search capabilities are pretty nice, and I've had great luck with it, especially as I can set it up portably.
Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by amaccuish on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:12PM (#19048925)
Did you get very far with other enterprise stuff like Sharepoint?
Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by ChuckMcM on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:42PM (#19049160)
I didn't try Sharepoint, although I looked at Elastic Search on AWS briefly. The goal though was to have all of this stuff on premises both for latency reasons and to maintain a credible defense should someone come after me for copyright infringement.