### (New) Project: Searchable Yizkor Books Contents release ####

[Avraham]

Hi all,

as some of you may recall, I have tried in the past (a few years now :) glueing some small projects/apps I wrote to enable digitally searching Yizkor Books contents.

The last milestone, years ago, was a Windows app where one would enter hebrew search terms and the app would return matches structured per page, line and word number.

As far as I know, very few, if at all, tested/tried.

It had the drawback, anyway, of requiring Windows machines.

Well, I was eventually fired at the end of July following a couple of layoff rounds in my company, meaning I got back to (my) business :-)

This time, however, the milestone is:

     1. The interface now is a (very rudimentary) web app. In other words, anyone can use it, and no one is required to install a thing. All you need is the browser you are using to read this mail (officially, I have been testing only on Chrome, so I can't tell now how it behaves in other browsers, but I do not think there should be a problem).

     2. Moreover, I have enhanced things so that I will be adding (progressively) new yizkor books over time - to the same web interface. 100% transparent to the end-user, all you are required to do is to 

         2.1 - pick the yizkor book you are willing to search in from the drop down list

         2.2 - enter a hebrew/yiddish search term (the currently 2 supported YBs are in hebrew, so use hebrew search terms). That's it.

Note that the app helps by allowing you to click the Page column of any result entry - by opening a new tab loading that exact Yizkor Book page so you can right away look at the match you just clicked on (search for your search-term by following the line and word number shown in the result).

I hope this time this is helpful, and you can at least try it and check if your families show up in the books of your choice.

I will be adding more books soon.

The app is hosted at: https://veverke.github.io/yizkor-books-search.html

Regards,

Avraham

[Avraham]

I have just generated 3 books more and added:

    Edinet

    Khotin

    Briceni

Please read the instructions / known issues in the web site or in the project site.

Regards,

Avraham