Searching with String that Represents a Signature

[Scott Selvia <sc...@thundercloudresources.com>]

We have OCR a document with a signature, you can select the signature and copy the text representation for searching in a lucene 4.7 index.  We have surrounded the search text with double quotes since it has invalid search characters without the use of the double quotes.

Search Text:  ":J!/z&”  when we search using this string I get hits that don’t match the 6 characters.  Do we have to use a / as an escape character?
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Re: Searching with String that Represents a Signature

[Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>]

The standard analyzer will discard most special characters as punctuation. 
What analyzer are you using?

-- Jack Krupansky

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From: Scott Selvia
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 7:42 PM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Searching with String that Represents a Signature

We have OCR a document with a signature, you can select the signature and 
copy the text representation for searching in a lucene 4.7 index.  We have 
surrounded the search text with double quotes since it has invalid search 
characters without the use of the double quotes.

Search Text:  ":J!/z&”  when we search using this string I get hits that don’t 
match the 6 characters.  Do we have to use a / as an escape character?
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