We have just released a new drupal module to index and search attached images of nodes.

An ApacheSolr helper module to index, query and retrieve attached images' file paths and ids of content nodes.

Benefits:
- You need not run resource intensive node_load() to get list of attached images for each items in results.
- Image paths / ids are available in apachesolr results array.
- Image path can be passed to imagecache preset

And this can be easily used in search results and other search screens such as themed "more like this" pages.

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