Cropping: Cropping several parts

[gmourier]

Today, if a field has to be cropped, the engine stops at the first possible crop. This is not ideal, especially to show the interesting parts of a document from the end user's query.

For example, a document ends with Currently I'm trying to get nice visuals. and there is the term visuals higher up in this field.

If the user searches for get nice visual in the search bar, this is what the cropper will render in the _formatted object:

loremipsum visual loremipsum

when it would be more useful to try to display all possible cropped parts for visual comfort/reading information and relevance:

...loremipsum visual loremipsum... ...nice visuals.

Depending on the cropLength value, several crops could automatically be merged into one if they collide.

We could also propose a mode that is based on the density of the terms found to keep the best crop.

[curquiza]

We could also propose a mode that is based on the density of the terms found to keep the best crop, see this issue: meilisearch/meilisearch#1912

[gmourier]

The next iteration of cropping favors a single cropped part but is selected according to the density against the query terms found to make it more helpful for readers by choosing the most relevant part.

meilisearch/specifications#120

[gmourier]

Following the v0.28 release, this discussion is now locked.

We encourage you to create a new thread if needed.

Thank you ✨