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Feature request: make selection of metadata importers a per-index option [message #1038] Mon, 27 April 2020 23:12 Go to previous message
Zvi Biener
Messages: 8
Registered: April 2020
Junior Member
Hi all and CTM,
I'm using the group to make a feature request, and see if anyone else is
interested. It is to make the choice of metadata importers a per-index
selection, not a global selection.

I use mostly scanned and OCRed pdfs, and the different between spotlight
and XPDF importer can be enormous. I duplicate all my indexes, one using
the spotlight importer, and one using XPDF. Since FT sorts by relevance, it
is very easy to skip files that are next to one another (i.e., the same
results are found), but also easy to see that some files that are of low
relevance using one importer become high relevance on the other. It works.
However, this means I can't have the indexes updated automatically, since I
need to manually select the importer, then update the relevant indexes,
then select the other importer, and update the others. (I can streamline
one of these, but not both). Having the importers as a per-index selection
would solve this.

thanks.
 
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