Re: [Gnumed-devel] doc_med , txt blob

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:24:25PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >I think the answer is: yes that's possible, but not desirable.
> >
> >I'm not sure what the end-user use would be for searching, say, all  
> >the
> >JPEG images, would be.
> 
> I was only thinking the text or text-like objects. Within a patient  
> the use case could be a diagnostic consideration that got mentioned  
> in a report but which was not at the time given serious consideration  
> and/or was missed and therefore not coded as meta-data.
Yes, that's a use case. It is indeed preferable to be able
to find matches for searches even inside
blobs-happening-to-be-text. To facilitate this my suggestion
is to store textual representations of blobs (be it the blob
itself once again or be it an OCR translation of a scanned
letter) in a place that's searched for matches, too. Which
is blobs.doc_desc.

Karsten
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