Who's using Oracle Text?
Hi all,
I've done some experimenting with Oracle Text, and it seems to
offer some handy stuff. I am a bit disappointed with the quality
of the INSO filtering technology, especially for PDFs. There are
also some items that seem, at best, extremely difficult, and at
worst, impossible. (Highlighting a matched search term found in
a PDF file comes to mind. It's not going to do my users a whole
lot of good to get a match to a search in a 200 page PDF file,
just to then have to go digging all the way through Acrobat
Reader to get to the actual content that matched...) My initial
impression is that this may be great if you just have a pile of
ASCII text files, but that using it for much more than that is
pushing it...
Anyway, I've done lots of digging through here and Metalink, and
have seen tons of weird kinds of problems. What I'm looking for
are some stories: Tell me how you used it to do something good.
Let me know what the problems were, and how you surmounted them
(or didn't). Basically, I'd like to get some personal
experiences from folks that I can use to make a determination
whether I should continue to investigate using this tool, or if I
should pursue a third-party solution (like Verity, etc.).
Advice from folks with specific experience doing
document/content/knowledge management with Oracle Text would be
appreciated as well.
Thanks!
Sean