Magazine articles

[rgmhtt]

My wife has a number of professional magazines she gets and we were discussing how to organize them so she can find articles of value years later (she is a music teacher, so old articles are still pertinent).

I was thinking that any app that worked as a book catalogue would work also for individual articles in a magazine.

Does anyone have any experience along these lines and any recommendation?

[moredruid]

maybe a searcheable archive would be something for you? The only reference I can find is ibiblio, I know there are others.

You can do several things: scan your documents and have em parsed by the OCR, or scan to pdf and rely on a local search engine (apache has a very powerful one called lucene) so you can just search every file on your hard drive for the content. I like this best since you don't have to muck around with metawords/tags and such - you'll always find yourself putting in different tags when you write them from when you want to find something

[rgmhtt]

maybe a searcheable archive would be something for you? The only reference I can find is ibiblio, I know there are others.

You can do several things: scan your documents and have em parsed by the OCR, or scan to pdf and rely on a local search engine (apache has a very powerful one called lucene) so you can just search every file on your hard drive for the content. I like this best since you don't have to muck around with metawords/tags and such - you'll always find yourself putting in different tags when you write them from when you want to find something

Nah, my wife wants her mags to read when she wants and only some indexing tool to find that elusive article about a particular teaching method. So it is metawords and tags for us, sigh. There are a BUNCH of stuff I would love to OCR and throw the paper out, but even though I just picked up a 1.5TB drive to put on my server, I don't see this happening soon. First have to covert our cassette collection to MP3