Indexing ob binary documents

Hello,
my question is about the INSO_FILTER that is used when binary files are indexed(pdf, doc,..). In the IFS context search is about that, and there is IFS for Linux, that means that there is some kind of filter for Linux. Can that filter be used to index documents with Oracle text under Linux?
Thanks

For LINUX there is an INSO_FILTER with 8.1.7
(executeable ctxhx).
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| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 3022 | | |
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|* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | SYS895336_TEST_WQI__PIKEY_IX | 1 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 | FILTER | | | | | |
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SQL Error: ORA-29858: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXALTER routine
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ORA-30968: invalid XPATH or NAMESPACE option for XML Index
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          TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)
          TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011)
          TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015)
          Game:Back to the Future (y2012)
          Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009)
          Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)
Example after Indexing is completed:
The marked up text/references did not transfer over properly from the Word document I copied my question from. I had to manually type the text within the {} brackets for illustrative purposes here:
          TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015){ XE "TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)" }
          TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011){ XE "TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011)" }
          TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015){ XE "TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015)" }
          Game:Back to the Future (y2012){ XE "Game:Back to the Future (y2012)" }
          Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009){ XE "Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009)" }
          Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2){ XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)" }
Example Index
G
    Game
          Back to the Future (y2012) · 2
M
    Made for TV Movie
          The Magic 7(y2009) · 2
    Main Entry
          Subentry (b1-m2) · 1,
2
T
     TV
          Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015) · 2
          Phineas and Ferb (y2011) · 2
          The Good Wife (y2014-y2015) · 2
Chris Schurman

Once I combined my Excel knowledge and Word knowledge, this became a piece of cake. Sharing my solution for anyone else who may have the need. The point of this exercise is to prepare for an open book exam and I need a quick index of my books
(there are 6 for this class). Anyway, here is how i solved (though slightly clunky, it works in seconds!)"
In Excel, I pieced the text together by concatenating the indexing markup and the contents of the pertinent cells as such:
   =CONCATENATE("XE """,A2,":",B2," (b",C2,"-p",D2,")"" \t """"")
Content from Excel (with results of concantenate statement in last column:
Heading   Slide Title   Book   Page   Copy this into notepad then into word
Game   Back to the Future   1   12   XE "Game:Back to the Future (b1-p12)"
Made for TV Movie   The Magic 7   2   7   XE "Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7 (b2-p7)"
Main Entry   Subentry   3   48   XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b3-p48)"
TV   Curb Your Enthusiasm   4   100   XE "TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (b4-p100)"
TV   Phineas and Ferb   5   20   XE "TV:Phineas and Ferb (b5-p20)"
TV   The Good Wife   6   35   XE "TV:The Good Wife (b6-p35)"
Then I paste special the "Values" of the last column into Word.
I run the macro below (haven't figured out how to loop yet) a few doxen times an insert the index at the bottom.
   Sub Index()
   ' Index Macro
       Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
       Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
       Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
       Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
           PreserveFormatting:=False
       Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine
       Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
   End Sub
Bam; instant Index!
Chris Schurman

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