Mark indexed books?

[albell]

Hello
I just installed 6.1 and would like to index the library. But I wonder if after the operation is done, there is a way to mark the indexed files in order to distinguish them from those that are not (for various reasons, the most typical of which is that a pdf does not have the layer text)?
thank you!

[ownedbycats]

I don't believe there is a way currently.

I wonder if there could be made a template function something like annotation_count() but a boolean, -- has_index_text() perhaps.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I wonder if there could be made a template function something like annotation_count() but a boolean, -- has_index_text() perhaps.

There isn't an API to ask if a book is in the index.

EDIT: and looking at the code it would be *very* slow, requiring a DB lookup for each book. The answer would need to be cached, something I am not prepared to do as it isn't clear that such a function is worth the effort.

[albell]

Originally Posted by chaley

There isn't an API to ask if a book is in the index.

EDIT: and looking at the code it would be *very* slow, requiring a DB lookup for each book. The answer would need to be cached, something I am not prepared to do as it isn't clear that such a function is worth the effort.

Perhaps a simpler thing would be to be able to automatically tag indexed books in a custom column (I use one for this type of service information). But I don't know if it's really that simple.

[kovidgoyal]

all books are indexed. there is no such thing as a non indexed book. only books that have been indexed or are queued to be indexed. Even if a book doesnt have much text in it, it will still be indexed with whatever text it does have. If it has no text it will be indexed with the empty string.

[albell]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

all books are indexed. there is no such thing as a non indexed book. only books that have been indexed or are queued to be indexed. Even if a book doesnt have much text in it, it will still be indexed with whatever text it does have. If it has no text it will be indexed with the empty string.

Thank you Kovid for the clarification.
So there is no way to know which books are indexed with an empty string? These would be surely pdf scanned without ocr: it would be useful (for me at least ) to catch them and perform ocr.

[kovidgoyal]

Run a bulk PDF to TXT conversion and search your library for very small TXT files. That should tell you.