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Re:Fast, Open Source Search by dariusj18 on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:20AM (#27155207)
I also want pdfs and other files indexed
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Re:Fast, Open Source Search by jabo on Friday May 14, 2021 @12:15PM (#27155910)
Typesense operates on JSON documents. So you'd have to first extract the data from PDFs / office docs into JSON and then index it.

There are libraries that let you do the conversion:

https://github.com/modesty/pdf2json

https://github.com/microsoft/Simplify-Docx

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