Re: [Tracker] Text extraction on text formats

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Le jeudi 16 novembre 2006 Ã 22:53 +0100, Laurent Aguerreche a Ãcrit :
> > Le jeudi 16 novembre 2006 Ã 22:46 +0100, Luca Ferretti a Ãcrit :
> > > Il giorno gio, 16/11/2006 alle 21.36 +0100, Laurent Aguerreche ha
> > > scritto:
> > > > Le jeudi 16 novembre 2006 Ã 18:55 +0000, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > > > > Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > > > > I suspect that the RTF format is currently not managed by tracker. We
> > > > > > should manage it, 'cause it's the only format supported by all Word
> > > > > > Processors. Read note [4] about metadata and non ASCII characters.
> > > > > package unrtf in debian/ubuntu  universe might help with this - it has 
> > > > > command line to convert to plain text - anyone wanna write a filter for 
> > > > > this?
> > > > hum,
> > > >
> > > > $ unrtf --text pooooo.rtf
> > > > This is UnRTF, version 0.19.2
> > > > By Dave Davey and Marcos Serrou do Amaral
> > > > Original Author: Zach T. Smith
> > > > Processing pooooo.rtf...
> > > > ### Translation from RTF performed by UnRTF, version 0.19.2
> > > > ### For information about this marvellous program,
> > > > ### please go to http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
> > > > ### document uses ANSI character set
> > > > ### font table contains 4 fonts total
> > > > modello, ,schema,
> > > > AUTHOR: Luca Ferretti
> > > > ### creaton date: 16 November 2006 15:29
> > > > ### revision date: 1 January 1601
> > > > ### last printed: 1 January 1601
> > > > ### comments: StarWriter
> > > >
> > > > -----------------
> > > > Questo ?? un semplice esempio delle potenzialit?? di OO.o
> > >          ^^ it was "Ã"                          ^^ it was Ã
> > A question: what is encoding of this string? UTF8, ISO-something,
> > Win-something, etc.? Now, I can see that with libGSF and a RTF file:
> >
> > Doc.Comment="Questo file altro non \303\250 che un esempio di modello di
> > file per OO.o Writer per testare l'indicizzazione di Tracker";
>
> It is really strange... I also have the same problem on some of my DOC
> files but I do not know whether it impacts any DOC file.
> I do not see any way to resolve that problem except to contact authors
> of libgsf. I tried "wv" with wvSummay command to print the data that we
> are looking for but wv has the same problems and it also uses libgsf...
>
> Nevertheless I send a patch that makes tracker-extract to print not
> empty metadata (yeah!) and to have a better memory management.

have applied to CVS thanks

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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