Using ElasticSearch and/or Solr as a datastore for MS Office and PDF documents

Question

I\'m currently designing a full text search system where users perform text queries against MS Office and PDF documents, and the result will return a list of documents that

Answer 1

A bit late to the party but this may help someone :)

I had a similar problem and some research led me to fscrawler. Description:

This crawler helps to index binary documents such as PDF, Open Office, MS Office.

Main features:

• Local file system (or a mounted drive) crawling and index new files,
• update existing ones and removes old ones. Remote file system over SSH crawling.
• REST interface to let you "upload" your binary documents to elasticsearch.