I Became a Solr Committer in 4662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! …
My python generator died and all I got was this stupid blog article
couple your generators with context managers! As part of my AI Powered Search chapters, I’m cleaning up Hello LTR’s Python API to make the code more readable as book examples. A big part…
Quepid Carries Your Caseload
Now that you are using Quepid to collaborate with members of your team by sharing your cases with other members of your Team, you need a way to view…
Importing Legacy Search Results into Quepid
Are you migrating from Google Search Appliance, Endeca, or some other legacy search solution to Solr or Elasticsearch? Want to prove the migration succeeded without worrying about lost customers,…
Tour of Tika Server Deployment Options
Tika was originally built as a pure library that you would embed in other applications, but soon people wanted to access it over HTTP as a standalone service. In…
Announcing Quepid 6.1.0
It’s been six months since we open sourced Quepid, and it looks like momentum is growing. Since we flipped the switch, we’ve had two minor point releases. We’ve also…
Opening up search is an ethical imperative
As search professionals, we’re often lost in our everyday minutiae. We don’t appreciate the impact of our work on everyday lives. The data shows that when users encounter non-trivial…
Tika Tuesdays: Parsing Tika & Tesseract formatted HOCR output inside Solr ingestion pipeline
In our first couple of posts, we ended up doing a lot of the processing work outside of Solr. It gave me a chance to polish my PowerShell skills,…
What is a ‘Relevant’ Search Result?
Five years ago, I wrote an article called What is Search Relevance?. Back then, I had to shout to convince people to even notice whether search results were accurate…
Tesseract 3 and Tika
Tesseract 4 is a major upgrade to this venerable OCR library, incorporating neural networks and lots of other great improvements, but not everyone has upgraded to it (including one…
A noob’s guide to indexing data with Solr’s classic schema
Intro I joined OSC a month ago as their first data-scientist, so I’ve been drinking from a firehose trying to get up to speed on Solr. After breezing through…
What Should Your Search Document Be?
In a search engine, the “document” is the basic unit of indexing and retrieval. It’s the “result” on the search results screen when a user enters a query. Many…