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Best way to search files on remote server?
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What's a bajillion? If the OCR output is less than a few GB, which is a heck of a lot of text (like a million pages), just grepping the files is not too bad. Maybe a second or two. Otherwise you need search software. solr.apache.org is what I'm used to but there are tons of options.