Re: MS Word (.doc) processing moved out of process

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Debajyoti Bera wrote:
> Well, to be specific, now the bad word files would not "crash" beagle anymore. 
> If wv crashes, then it would crash the beagle-doc-extractor tool which runs 
> outside of beagle. However, that means your doc file text won't get 
> indexed :-(.

True.

> There are doc2text tools out there which can successfully extract text out of 
> docs for which wv crashes - if you are using any of them in your external 
> filter you might want to continue using them.

What are the tools?  We might want to just use them instead of our own 
beagle-doc-extractor if they're more reliable.

Joe