How to index pdf, ppt, xl files in lucene (java based or python or php any of these is fine)?

Question

Also I want to know how to add meta data while indexing so that i can boost some parameters

Answer 1

There are several frameworks for extracting text suitable for Lucene indexing from rich text files (pdf, ppt etc.)

• One of them is Apache Tika, a sub-project of Lucene.
• Apache POI is a more general document handling project inside Apache.
• There are also some commercial alternatives.