Using Verity to search BLOB fields in DB

[CF_DAWG]

Hello All!

We have an Oracle 9i database with a table containing documents (PDF, Word,
Excel, etc) stored in that table in a BLOB column. We want to use Verity to
index this column so users can search on it.

We are having problems doing this. We query the database, we attempt to put
the results into the collection, but then when we search on it, we get no
results.

Any help or ideas are appreciated!

[CF_DAWG]

I called Macromedia support on this one. They said that Verity as it currently
is with CFMX 7, does not support full text indexing of BLOBs in a table. We
chose to go with Oracle Text Search instead, but could also have gone the
Google route, as their search utility indexes BLOBs also.