Re: [Tracker] Development version and document formats

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Edward Duffy wrote:
> T = full text
> M = metadata
> Y = T and M
> N = not(T or M)

correct list is below:

 N (in progress) Evolution1
 N (in progress) Thunderbird2
 N (planned in the next few months) Gaim3 and Kopete4
 N (planned in the next few months)Firefox5 and Epiphany6
 N Konqueror7
 N Blam8, Liferea9 and Akregator10
 N (planned in the next few months) Tomboy11
 N KMail12
 N KNotes13
 Y OpenOffice.org14
 Y OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp)
 Y Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
 M (can someone create a filter for this please - it might be possible 
on the command line with abiword) AbiWord15 (abw)
 T Rich Text Format (rtf)
 Y PDF
 T HTML (xhtml, html, htm)
 T Source code
 N Texinfo
 N (planned in the next few months) Man pages
 N (planned in the next few months) Docbook
 N Monodoc
 N Windows help files (chm)
 M Images (jpeg, png, bmp, tiff, gif)
 M Audio (mp3, ogg, flac)
 M Video
 N (planned in the next few months) Application launchers
 N (planned in the next few months) Linux packages (ebuild, rpm)
 T Generic XSLT files
 T (system-wide, not local) Allow adding user extensions for more filters

all current text filters can be found in 
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/filters/

text filters can be written in any language or use any external program 
to perform the extraction. The filters themseleves are shell scripts

For stability reasons, all text is extracted out of process


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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