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

[Ryan Pavlik <abiryan ryand net>]

Joe Shaw wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
wv should be pretty reliable - if it's not, bug reports are _very much_ 
appreciated because the code is used all over the place, including (dear 
to my heart) AbiWord, and it shouldn't crash.  Sample documents are 
greatly appreciated.

Ryan

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