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by dyeje 2310 days ago
We had a really simple document storage component to a webapp I was working on. Customers wanted to be able to search them so we had a ticket chilling in the backlog with the maximum point value to implement Solr. I ended up implementing it in an hour by taking the raw text out of the PDF with some library, shoving it into a Postgres column, and doing a LIKE query.