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

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

that's a good news.

> 2008/5/26 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.
> >
> >     
>
> Not quite. odt2txt can handle OOo 1.x documents in general.
> I stumbled upon a few OOo documents though (old ones, pre StarOffice
> 7), which odt2txt had problems with. This seems to be fixable though,
> and the Debian maintainer of odt2txt tries to get that sorted out with
> upstream, so future version of odt2txt can also handle those old OOo
> documents (it seems to be, that those are documents which don't ship a
> mimetype file in the archive).
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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