I have a on my file system many hundreds of computer science articles
I've downloaded from citeseer, arXiv, ACM Digital Library, etc.  I'm
looking for commercial software that will aid in searching and
organizing them.  Desirable capabilities (in order of priority) are:

    --Search text in postscript, PDF, MS Word, and HTML.
    --Extract bibliographic information from the file, and use it in
searching.
    --Allow user assignment of categories or keywords to articles.

I'm aware that the citeseer source code is available for noncommercial
purposes and has these capabilities.  But my interest at the moment is
in a commercial package with customer support, manuals, etc.

Thanks, Dave

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 12 Oct 2002 22:54 PDT

Hi! Thanks for your question. Just to clarify, is this the type of
product you are looking for?

DocuXplorer
http://www.docuxplorer.com/?source=Google

If this ok I will try to find other products then post it as an
answer. Just let me know. :)

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Clarification of Question by daviddlewis-ga on 13 Oct 2002 05:58 PDT

Hi - Thanks for the question.  Docuxplorer is roughly the kind of
software I'm interested in.  But it, like most software in this class,
appears to be missing the first two of the special capabilities I
listed:

    #1. Indexing Postscript, PDF, HTML, and MS Word 
    #2. Extracting author, title, and (if possible) citation
information from the document itself.

It does satisfy #3 (adding keywords), though something which allowed
the keywords to be organized in a taxonomy would be even better. 
Docuxplorer also has some capabilities I don't need, like managing the
*creation* of documents.

Dave

Hi, 

This is going to sound a lot like blatant self promotion, but the
Google Search Appliance does all three of your requirements with much
more. I think it would solve all of your needs and it is supported by
Google, with manuals and everything :-)

You can find out more about this here:

://www.google.com/appliance/product_info.html

thanks,

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 21 Oct 2002 11:23 PDT

Hi again, 

Sorry that wasn't an answer for you. Next time you use the service it
would be good to use the Clarification Button and let the researcher
know to keep looking rather than closing the question. I'll do some
more research and find a better answer for you anyway, since you
probably didn't realize that this was an option for you. Most of the
researchers will keep looking until they find a complete answer for
your question, or until all resources are drained, all you have to do
is ask.

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 22 Oct 2002 13:13 PDT

Hi again, 

Pico Search will work for you, all you need to do is setup an
Intra-net, so you will need a webserver engine of sometype. If you
have Win2000 or a Linux box available, then that will be enough. If
you don't I recomend that you get a Linux box, for price and setup
hasles. If you have Win2000 then you can use the IIS or Apache server
to get it started. The simple access to Pico search will setup a
single page which doesn't have to be connected to the Internet any any
way if you don't want it to be. All you need is access to that
machine. If you work on Win2000 like I do, then you simply use your
browser to access
http://localhost 
and that gives you access to the PicoSearch. 

http://www.picosearch.com/faqs/faq_text_too.html

This may not work for you with your need not to purchase more hardware
so I continued my search for other software solutions which don't
require a network setup to run.

Cypress Seems to have one that wiil work for you
http://www.cypress-software.com/news/pressreleases/pr_CPF_0602.htm

echive from Open Archive Systems 
http://www.openarchive.com/echive.htm

WebSonar
http://www.websonar.com/home.html

Practical Program (probably over kill for your needs)
http://www.practicalprograms.com/key_feature.htm


Now, you may be aware of this but to keep from over looking the
obvious, the Windows Search function does search for text inside all
of those file types you are asking for. If you have Acrobat installed,
which you obviously do, then it will search for text strings inside
PDF files as well. I know this because my son plays Dungeons and
Dragons and I have over 2000 pdf files with all the rule books and
reference tables and games and .. .. well you get the picture. To
search all of those looking for what I need, I just use the regular
Windows search function, pointing it at the directory tree where all
those documents are and ask it to search for a string of text. It's a
bit limited in query ability but it does work and I've never thought
of getting anything more than this function.  You can read more about
this on Mircosoft's website here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prde_ffs_pmma.asp

If you still need more than this then post a Clarification for me and
I'll look around some more. Note that when you use a Clarification the
Researchers get an email notice of you request, when you place
comments we don't.

Search Query
+"Content Manager" Postscript, PDF, HTML, and MS Word

Document Management PDF MSWord files



Thanks again, 

webadept-ga

Hi - I think very highly of Google's technology, but my request was
for a *software* product, not a software/hardware combination.  It's
also not clear to me that it extracts bibliographic information,
though I wouldn't be surprised if they have that in some future
version.

Dave

I wonder if a local proggie person could write one for you. If no one
else offers let me know your budget, and I'll see if I can chain
someone to a desk.

Webadept - Apologies, yes, I misunderstood the Clarification option,
and didn't realize I could keep the question open.  I will repost the
question (hopefully more clearly), so that you or others can keep
working on it.

Dave