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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) keyword searching of documents Post 302170450 by Miles on Monday 25th of February 2008 02:59:28 PM

02-25-2008

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keyword searching of documents

Unix based fix-it needed?

Platform and feature: search programs on Apple computers (Leopard or Tiger; 10.4 and above; Spotlight)

Problem: the document search feature of these programs produce hits when keyword(s) used appear anywhere in the document's content.

Change required: we need to limit (.pdf) document searches to the titles we've created.

Present status: we've continued to use Apple's Panther search platform, which has no such problem; new generations of Apple are not compatible with Panther.

Example: Our foundation's Schizophrenia library contains over 35,000 journal articles, housed in over 3,000 (hierarchically organized) folders, within a single (desktop) folder.

The ability to search by document TITLE within all or part of this 18.6 gb matrix (or alternatively, by folder title) is a key feature of this library.

Why Apple? Our article labels are designed to produce (simultaneously) very content-rich and easy to read information (in a complex biomedical discipline); thus, it is extremely desirable to employ: 1) longer label sizes than PCs allow; and 2) grammatical characters (e.g., apostrophe, &, ... ) that PCs do not recognize.

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JHINDEXER(1)							    Java Tools							      JHINDEXER(1)

NAME

       jhindexer - JavaHelp command line utility

SYNOPSIS

       jhindexer [ options ] [ file | folder ]

PARAMETERS

       options
	  Command-line options.

       file
	  JavaHelp system content file. If the argument is a folder, the folder is searched recursively for JavaHelp system content files.

DESCRIPTION

       jhindexer  creates  a  full-text  search  database  used  by the JavaHelp system full-text search engine to locate matches. You can use the
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OPTIONS

       -c file
	  A configuration file name.

       -db dir
	  The name of the database output folder. By default the output folder is named JavaHelpSearch and is created in the current folder.

       -locale lang_country_variant
	  The name of the locale as described in java.util.Locale.For example: en_US  (English,  United  States)  or  en_US_WIN  (English,  United
	  States, Windows variant).

       -logfile file
	  Captures  jhindexer  messages in a specified file. You can use this option to preserve jhindexer output on Win32 machines where the con-
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       -nostop words
	  Causes stop words to be indexed in the full-text search database.

       -verbose
	  Displays verbose messages while processing.

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