Typically, a query application enables the user to view the documents returned by a query. The user selects a document from the hitlist, and then the application presents the document in some form.

With Oracle Text, you can display a document in different ways, such as highlighting either the words of a word query or the themes of an ABOUT query in English.

You can also obtain gist (document summary) and theme information from documents with the CTX_DOC PL/SQL package.

Table 8-2 describes the different output you can obtain and which procedure to use to obtain each type.