So I've been reading about KinoSearch with a view to putting together a new search engine for a website, and it sounds really great - but, unless I've misunderstood, it appears it does not do any document parsing. That is, I will have to write a document parser to pass the content of my flies to KinoSearch for building the inverted index.

That was one of the nice things about old Perlfect Search - it had a crawler and a parser built in. (In fact sometimes I wonder why I don't just go back to Perlfect...)

Anyway - I've got everything on this site - html, shtml, pdf, doc, xls....am I really going to have to re-invent the wheel here? Or are there any good multi-format parsers out there?

OR, is there something as good as Kino that includes a parsing module/

Thanks.