Posts Tagged “remora”

Remora Project

I have now tested the search engine on an iPod Touch. The code and software is available here. In summary there are 2 search engines. One does a Yahoo! search and allows you to add PDFs to the local search engine. The basic idea is you can easily add documents to your device and find [...]

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iPhone local search video

I made a video of searching my iPhone loaded with over 2000 PDFs from MIT’s OpenCourseWare. The search engine, Hyper Estraier,  is the same one used on gnu.org but running locally on the iPhone together with a local lighttpd web server. It performs very well and provides a nice way of accessing or iPhone when [...]

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