The logical representation of a {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} for indexing and searching.

The document package provides the user level logical representation of content to be indexed and searched. The package also provides utilities for working with {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document}s and {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField}s.

## Document and IndexableField

A {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} is a collection of {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField}s. A {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField} is a logical representation of a user's content that needs to be indexed or stored. {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField}s have a number of properties that tell Lucene how to treat the content (like indexed, tokenized, stored, etc.) See the {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field} implementation of {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField} for specifics on these properties.

Note: it is common to refer to {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document}s having {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field}s, even though technically they have {@link org.apache.lucene.index.IndexableField}s.

## Working with Documents

First and foremost, a {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} is something created by the user application. It is your job to create Documents based on the content of the files you are working with in your application (Word, txt, PDF, Excel or any other format.) How this is done is completely up to you. That being said, there are many tools available in other projects that can make the process of taking a file and converting it into a Lucene {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document}.

The {@link org.apache.lucene.document.DateTools} is a utility class to make dates and times searchable (remember, Lucene only searches text). {@link org.apache.lucene.document.IntField}, {@link org.apache.lucene.document.LongField}, {@link org.apache.lucene.document.FloatField} and {@link org.apache.lucene.document.DoubleField} are a special helper class to simplify indexing of numeric values (and also dates) for fast range range queries with {@link org.apache.lucene.search.NumericRangeQuery} (using a special sortable string representation of numeric values).