Lucene is a popular text indexing tool (http://lucene.apache.org/). But installing lucene for pythonic usage is a heck of a work (Building Pylucene on ubuntu 14.04(trusty tahr)).
Whoosh is a python based indexing library (https://pythonhosted.org/Whoosh/quickstart.html) that supports full text search like that of lucene.
For the sake of users who don't want the hassle of installing pylucene to use an index i've built. Is there a way to port Lucene index into Whoosh? If so, how?
Other than Whoosh, I could get Lucene into MongoDB's gridFS and then try as much to replicate full text search in MongoDB. But how do I port a Lucene index into MongoDB? Is that even possible?
Humanly, one can use Luke (https://code.google.com/p/luke/) or Clue (https://github.com/javasoze/clue) to read the files but is there any other way to export Lucene index into a pythonically readable format? (without using pylucene)?
