What are free or inexpensive tools for finding / indexing file systems (using .Net)?

Question

I am looking for a way to search for a file system containing about 1 TB of documents in Office or PDF format. Is Lucene.Net better to do this? I also heard about dtSearch and wondered if anyone had used this tool successfully? Are there any other tools that could do the job?

I am looking for tools that use .Net and will work in Windows mailboxes.

If Lucene.Net is the best way to go, does anyone have some good tutorials to help me get started? I googled, and most of the results that return either do not seem to be the best or do not directly affect my current situation.

If this question has already been asked, I apologize, and if someone wants to point me to a similar post, it will be great.

Answer 1

Take a look at Search Server Express . This is the free version of search included with SharePoint.

Lucene / Solr is a choice, but your problem is not a search engine for every user, you need a system that can read and parse PDF files. Lucene itself is just an engine, but you have Solr add-ons that help you parse the content.

Using Search Server will let you work pretty fast, and the search API is well documented and easy to use.

Answer 2

I used everything, and I like it quite a bit, its application, but it also has an SDK for C / C # / Clarion, which includes its search API.

First, it will not index the contents of files, just the names of the files. This makes it very quick to create and access an index.

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Answer 3

Check out searchblox , a full-featured crawler / indexer built on top of Lucene and 100% free.