Migrating from elasticsearch to meilisearch

[valh1996]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the possibilities of migrating from Elasticsearch to Meilisearch because I have a very specific need and Elasticsearch is a bit of a gas factory for the only need I have.

I need to be able to search PDF and DOCX documents. I know it's not possible to do this directly with Meilisearch, but I already have a script that allows me to extract the text, so I could simply index the text with the corresponding model id to meilisearch.

My question is whether it's possible to do text search according to this need:

1. Search by one or more exact words - case sensitive (e.g. adding quotes ("") around the word).
2. Search for one or more partial words - case insensitive? (ex: ell matches hello)

I could create my own little search "language" on top of meilisearch if that's possible. For example, I need to be able to do a search like: "heLLo" AND ben or jame.

Is this possible?
Thanks

[macraig]

Hi @valh1996 , apologies for the late reply!

Search by one or more exact words - case sensitive (e.g. adding quotes ("") around the word).

Yes, you can use quotes for exact word matching

Search for one or more partial words - case insensitive? (ex: ell matches hello)

Meilisearch can handle prefixes (see prefix search, but for the particular example you gave it won't work as ell has a typo in the first character, and the engine won't accept typos for words with less than 5 characters. You can customize the char minimum (see the typos in the docs) but the other factor here is that a typo in the first character is counted as two typos.