Search Components Online

PDF Text Extraction Tool

FreewareFiles.com has a nice PDF text extraction tool.  From the description:

Ease Pdf to Text Extractor is a free software designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files. It does NOT need Adobe Acrobat software.It processes at very high speed and you can convert multiple PDF files to text files at one time. The program is freeware, which means that you can use it either personally or commercially for free.

Warning: a few dynamic ads on this site.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Ease-PDF-To-Text-Extractor_program_43618.html

Real-time Data Dashboards

Though not exactly full-text search, these folks let you visualize your business data, though we'd like to see it retooled for monitoring search engine performance as well.

From their website:

Turn Your Data Into Insight

iDashboards is the award-winning software for business intelligence dashboards. Our solutions are deployed by companies worldwide to cultivate a culture of greater productivity, accountability and enhanced performance.

iDashboards delivers a robust solution that scales from 10 to 10,000 users. It comes with role-based permission, security framework and live connectivity to most data sources. It also provides e-mail based alerting capability.

http://www.idashboards.com

OpenPipeline.org seeks to Standardize Document Processing

Our friends over at Dieselpoint have launched an open source initiative at OpenPipeline.org to try and make the process of filtering and parsing documents a more orderly process.  More and more vendors are using the pipeline model, we even did an article about the FAST pipeline some time back.  Go Chris!

http://openpipeline.org

SEO for your Press Releases

Business Wire put a presentation online about optimizing your press releases to appeal to the large public search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.  Ironically their own URLs are rather SEO un-friendly.  The actual presentation is in PDF.

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL On-Demand Webinar

We're not gonna take sides on this, but this is an online Webinar that compares the two leading open source databases.

Two minor warnings: 1: Registration required, and 2: it's from a company that offers a commercial version of PostgreSQL, so keep that in mind.

Raritan Taxonomy Tools

Taxonomies continue to be a very popular topic.  See our Taxonomies page here on this site.

Raritan Technologies in New Jersey includes a number of products and services to taxonomy-enable your site.  From their site:

Pre-built  taxonomies allow an organization to get started quickly with a taxonomy search/navigation project. There's no need to start from scratch, use taxonomies built by classification experts. If an organization has browse capabilities or hierarchical structures, they can often be used to seed a taxonomy.

See their taxonomy page at:
http://www.raritantechnologies.com/Taxonomies.shtml

JQuery Tips on Text Searchng

Johann Burkard has published a number of JQuery tips in two postings on text manipulation and on text searching as just two of the interesting posts on JavaScript, Java and other technology topics. His first post shows simply how to remove a word using the replace method (based on our favorite, regex), while his second post has a great little function for searching for text that uses a recursive search for nodes that contain a pattern. It includes a cool demo of its capabilities as a link right under the code listing.

As the say, write less, Do More with JQuery.