Re: Replacement for Oracle Text

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:53:26AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 19 February 2016 at 11:46, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Daniel Westermann schrieb am 19.02.2016 um 12:41:
> >>>> if I'd need to implement/replace Oracle Text (ww.oracle.com/
> technetwork/testcontent/index-098492.html).
> >>>>> What choices do I have in PostgreSQL (9.5+) ?
> >
> >>Postgres also has a full text search (which I find much easier to use
> than Oracle's):
> >>
> >>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/textsearch.html
> >
> > Yes, i have seen this. Can this be used to index and search binary
> documents, e.g. pdf ?
>
> Ah, no. That's not possible
>
>
> ...not possible, Yet.
>
> PostgreSQL grows by adding the features people need and its changing rapidly. 

I wonder if PLPerl could be used to extract the words from a PDF
document and create a tsvector column from it.

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