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Chapter 1. Meet Lucene

Figure 1.1. Searching the internet with Google

Figure 1.2. Mac OS X Finder with its embedded search capability

Figure 1.3. Apple’s iTunes intuitively embeds search functionality.

Figure 1.4. Typical components of search application; the shaded components show which parts Lucene handles.

Figure 1.5. Classes used when indexing documents with Lucene

Chapter 2. Building a search index

Figure 2.1. Indexing with Lucene breaks down into three main operations: extracting text from source documents, analyzing it, and saving it to the index.

Figure 2.2. Segmented structure of a Lucene inverted index

Figure 2.3. A single IndexWriter can be shared by multiple threads.

Figure 2.4. An in-memory document buffer helps ...

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