Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Use odt2txt for indexing OpenOffice documents

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

but, Michael,
I just read the bug report, it seems that odt2txt can not handle
openoffice 1.x files,
and sxw2text can.

please correct me if I am wrong.


> Hi,
>
> it was brought to my attention, that o3read has been deprecated in
> favour of odt2txt [1]
>
> Attached is a patch, which:
>
> 1.) Uses odt2txt for filters/application/vnd.*
> 2.) Removes src/text-filters/ooo_converter/*, as the inlined copy of
> o3totxt is obsolete. (and fix the Makefile.amS and configure.ac)
> 3.) Add odt2txt to README as recommended dependency.
>
> I have decided to not inline a copy of odt2txt. All major distros (I
> checked Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE and Fedora) ship the odt2txt utility.
>
> Please review the attached patch (generated from trunk. applies to
> indexer-split with minor modifications) and test it with you OOo
> documents.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478091
>
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