Joe Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > Debajyoti Bera wrote: > >> Well, to be specific, now the bad word files would not "crash" beagle >> anymore. >> If wv crashes, then it would crash the beagle-doc-extractor tool which runs >> outside of beagle. However, that means your doc file text won't get >> indexed :-(. >> > > True. > > >> There are doc2text tools out there which can successfully extract text out >> of >> docs for which wv crashes - if you are using any of them in your external >> filter you might want to continue using them. >> > > What are the tools? We might want to just use them instead of our own > beagle-doc-extractor if they're more reliable. > > Joe > > > wv should be pretty reliable - if it's not, bug reports are _very much_ appreciated because the code is used all over the place, including (dear to my heart) AbiWord, and it shouldn't crash. Sample documents are greatly appreciated.
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