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I have about 100,000 PDFs that I want indexed and searchable. They're on a website and I want people to be able to visit the website and search through the PDFs.

Should I use Yacy or Apache Solr?

All opinions and rants welcome.

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Use Google Drive, set up a publicly shared folder, and drop the PDFs there. If you want you can even make a fancy search UX with google's search API.

https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/search-files

Also, YaCy is an automated web crawler that throws data into Solr, so your question doesn't make much sense.

I would recommend using Apache Tika to extract the text from the PDFs and using Solr (or Elasticsearch) to index and search them.

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