Using ElasticSearch and/or Solr as a datastore for MS Office and PDF documents

Question

I\'m currently designing a full text search system where users perform text queries against MS Office and PDF documents, and the result will return a list of documents that

Answer 1

Regarding solr:

If the docs only need to be returned on metadata searches, Solr features a BinaryField fieldtype, to which you can send binary data base64 encoded.Keep in mind that in general people recommend against doing this, as it may increase your index (RAM requirements/performance), and if possible a set-up where you store the files externally (and the path to the file in solr) might bea better choice.

If you want solr to automatically index the text inside the pdf/doc -- that's possible with the extractingrequesthandler: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler