Full Text Search and hyphenated books

Kuhnke · 07-19-2022, 03:58 PM

After indexing my books I did some test searching. I didn't find what I expected - nearly no results inside my hyphenated books (my fault, I should have known better). After removing all soft hyphens inside me books and a new indexing FTS works better than expected!

Two questions:
1 -Is there a "fuzzy" search option (simular to the calibre editor)?
2 - After editing a book with the integrated calibre editor, is the re-indexing done automaticly (that is what I understand, but I may be wrong)?

Last words: Thank you Kovid for the wonderful Calibre!

kovidgoyal · 07-19-2022, 09:59 PM

1. FTS will find related words, but that's the extent of the fuzziness (controlled by a checkbox in the FTS dialog)
2. Yes, although only in 6.1 (there was a bug in 6.0)

kovidgoyal · 07-19-2022, 10:00 PM

And I can actually have FTS remove soft hyphens itself, I thought I had already done that, but maybe I forgot.

kovidgoyal · 07-19-2022, 10:05 PM

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...cf4f962042d3f6

07-19-2022, 03:58 PM	#1
Kuhnke Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage	Full Text Search and hyphenated books After indexing my books I did some test searching. I didn't find what I expected - nearly no results inside my hyphenated books (my fault, I should have known better). After removing all soft hyphens inside me books and a new indexing FTS works better than expected! Two questions: 1 -Is there a "fuzzy" search option (simular to the calibre editor)? 2 - After editing a book with the integrated calibre editor, is the re-indexing done automaticly (that is what I understand, but I may be wrong)? Last words: Thank you Kovid for the wonderful Calibre!

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07-19-2022, 09:59 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1. FTS will find related words, but that's the extent of the fuzziness (controlled by a checkbox in the FTS dialog) 2. Yes, although only in 6.1 (there was a bug in 6.0)

07-19-2022, 10:00 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	And I can actually have FTS remove soft hyphens itself, I thought I had already done that, but maybe I forgot.

07-19-2022, 10:05 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...cf4f962042d3f6