sophian wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:53 pm
Thank You for your response. To be honest any tool that might work. Do you have a suggestion? I'm open to any kind of help I can get
I recently tried using HTTrack software to mirror my phpbb Board which kind of worked. It was able to copy the and convert the site to HTML. But my CSS formatting was unreadable. So the board is just basically the text without any format. Not sure exactly how to remedy that.
But if you have any kind of ideas I'm open to suggestions..
You just gave me an idea. I know that both Mac OS X and Windows can index the text in documents on your hard drive, and then give you a way to search for documents. (Maybe Linux can too?)
You could use this feature, combined with HTTrack to convert the site to HTML. Just store all the HTML documents in a folder on your hard disk, and then use your operating system's search index ability to search. Use your web browser to open and read the HTML pages.
warmweer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:05 pm
An option is to export topics to pdf, but that's not exactly searchable either.
I don't know about other operating systems, but Mac OS X can index the text in a PDF and will return results inside PDF documents on the hard disk when searching. Of course, it must be text as text, and not an image of text.