General Features
- very fast crawling
- very small memory footprint
- no hammering of the system
- portable: can run on different operative systems (actually Gnu/Linux, Solaris, Macos X and W indows)
- pluggable backend: currently clucene and hyperestraier, sqlite3 and xapian are in the works
- DBus and socket interfaces are available for communication between daemon and search programs.
- simple interface for implementing plugins for extracting information. We'll try to reuse the kat plugins, although native plugins will have a large speed advantage
- calculation of sha1 for every file crawled (allows fast finding of duplicates)
- automatically detects file system updates: in this way Strigi's index will be always syncronized with your file system contents (feature still experimental)
- inotify support: for keeping index up-to-date with your file system
contents (warning this is still under development)
Supported file types
Strigi is able to index the contents of the following file types:
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Plain text
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Pdf
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Archive files
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Mp3
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OASIS spreadsheet
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OASIS text file
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OASIS presentation
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Debian package
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rpm package
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JStreams
JStreams are the "heart" of Strigi. Their aim is to provide a standardized interface for accessing the contents of different file types.
