[Xapian-discuss] unoconv 0.4 issues

[Charlie Hull]

On 11/02/2011 16:13, xapian at catcons.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:29:55 +0530
>> From:<xapian at catcons.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] unoconv 0.4 issues
>> To:<xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
>> Cc: 'Olly Betts'<olly at survex.com>
>> Message-ID:<000801cbb0c6$4a09a3b0$0f02000a at cw8xp>
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>>
>> Thanks Olly  :-)
>>
>> I had mailed Dag Wieers and allowed a few days for reply
>> before writing to
>> the list, half-hoping some python-sperts might fix what may
>> be a trivial bug
>> (I do not python).
>>
>> Have mailed Dag again.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Charles
>
> Hello :-)
>
> Update ...
>
> Still no reply from Dag and the current version of unoconv at
> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/#download is still 0.4.
>
> I tried unoconv-0.4-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm on CentOS 5.5 with OpenOffice.org
> 3.1.1 (was previously using the generic unoconv-0.4.tar.bz2 on Slackware64
> 13.1 with OpenOffice.org 3.2.1).  unoconv worked with .doc files but not
> with .xls and .ppt.
>
> "Apache Tika!" (tika-app-0.8.jar) worked on .xls and .ppt files but felt
> slow; it took 39 seconds for a mix of 82 documents successfully filtered, as
> opposed to 10 seconds for 75 documents successfully filtered when trying to
> use unoconv on the .xls and .ppt files.  The .xls files were ~70 kB and the
> .ppt ~0.7 MB.

We have an early version of some file filters using Open Office here:
http://code.google.com/p/flaxcode/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fflax_filters
Not sure how it will stack up in terms of performance though...

Best

Charlie

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> Charles
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