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+folder2index
+------------
+
+Converts PDF, TXT or HTML documents to a Lucene index (for use with Carrot2 Clustering Workbench)
+
+Quick usage guide
+-----------------
+
+- install Apache Maven.
+
+- run:
+  mvn clean package
+  
+- cd target
+
+- prepare a folder FOO with your PDF, HTML or plain text files. Prepare an empty folder BAR
+  for the index.
+
+- run:
+
+  java -jar folder2index-0.0.2.jar --folder FOO --index BAR --use-tika
+
+The index will be created. Download and open Carrot2 Workbench.
+
+http://project.carrot2.org/download.html
+
+Select Lucene as the document source and pick the correct fields for the title, content and URL (pick file path as
+the URL field).
+
+http://download.carrot2.org/head/manual/index.html#section.getting-started.lucene
+
+Select other input options (how many results to cluster, query or *:*) and run your clustering.