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Subject: Re: my experiences - Re: Parsing Word Docs
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:13:24 -0500
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David,

The textmining.org stuff only works on Word97 and above. It should work with
no exceptions on any Word 97 doc. If you have any problems then it is from
an earlier version (most likely Word 6.0) or its not a word document. If
this isn't the case you need to email me so I can fix it and make it better
for the benefit of everyone. I plan on adding support for Word 6 in the
future.

Ryan Ackley

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Spencer" <David.Spencer@micromuse.com>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:24 PM
Subject: my experiences - Re: Parsing Word Docs


> FYI I tried the textmining.org/poi combo and on a collection of 350 word
> docs people have developed here over the years, and it failed on 33% of
them
> with exceptions being thrown about the formats being invalid.
>
> I tried "antiword" ( http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ ), a native & free
> *.exe, and
> it worked great ( well it seemed to process all the files fine).
>
> I've had similar experiences with PDF - I tried the 3 or so
> freeware/java PDF
> text extractors and they were not as good as the exe, pdftotext,
> from foolabs (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/).
>
> Not satisfying to a java developer but these work better than anything
> else I can find.
>
> You get source and I use them on windows & linux, no prob.
>
>
>
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>
> >I'm interested in using the textmining/textextraction utilities using
Apache
> >POI, that Ryan was discussing. However, I'm having some difficulty
determining
> >what the insertion point would be to replace the default parser with the
word
> >parser.
> >
> >Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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