Feature request: make selection of metadata importers a per-index option

[Zvi Biener]

Hi all and CTM,

I'm using the group to make a feature request, and see if anyone else is interested. It is to make the choice of metadata importers a per-index selection, not a global selection.

I use mostly scanned and OCRed pdfs, and the different between spotlight and XPDF importer can be enormous. I duplicate all my indexes, one using the spotlight importer, and one using XPDF. Since FT sorts by relevance, it is very easy to skip files that are next to one another (i.e., the same results are found), but also easy to see that some files that are of low relevance using one importer become high relevance on the other. It works. However, this means I can't have the indexes updated automatically, since I need to manually select the importer, then update the relevant indexes, then select the other importer, and update the others. (I can streamline one of these, but not both). Having the importers as a per-index selection would solve this.

thanks.