Introduction

Textpresso is a C++ library to index scientific papers by their textual content. It exposes functions to convert papers from pdf or xml formats into CAS files, and functions to store and retrieve documents from an index based on Lucene search engine.

The main classes of the library are tpc::index::IndexManager, which contains methods for creating and updating Textpresso index from CAS files and to search the indexed documents, and tpc::cas::CASManager, to convert pdf and xml files into CAS files, adding annotations about the content of the documents.