Re: [Tracker] wvText is deprecated

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

libgsf is one option dependency for tracker.
it is already used to extract meta data from ms office file.

see 
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/trunk/src/tracker-extract/tracker-extract-msoffice.c?revision=754&view=markup

it extracts title, subject, keywords information.

but I don't know if there is any cmd tool based on libgsf to convert ms 
office documentation into plain text.


Klemens Friedl wrote:
> wvware and ole2 are (very) outdated, and the successor of both
> libraries/projects is called "libgsf"
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgsf/).
>
> The following projects have already moved from wvware/ole2 or will
> move soon to libgsf:
> gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice
>
> The only downside of libgsf is that it relies on GLib 2+ (gnome-lib).
> But this is probably a non-issue for the MetaTracker project.
>
> I have talked recently with the libgsf project maintainer (Jody
> Goldberg), and he suggests to move to libgsf, as it supports a lot of
> more formats (that are based on ole2) and is more matured than older
> unmaintained projects (wvware and ole2).
>
> Klemens
>
>
> 2007/9/26, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
>
> - Zitierten Text ausblenden -
>   
> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:53 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> >     
> > > Jamie,
> > >
> > > http://wvware.sourceforge.net/#wv
> > >
> > > tracker use wvText to convert MS word into plain text, here I have some
> > > idea about it:
> > >
> > > [1] Tracker use AbiWrod instead
> > > [2] Does openoffice have utility/API to do the convert thing?
> > >       
> > dunno about 2 but all major distro's ship wv so we will continue to use
> > it until something better comes along
> >
> >     
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