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Ivan Ryndin commented on TIKA-1513:
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There are no reliable ways to detect codepage of DBF files. I haven't met DBF
specs where codepage is somehow specified with some special byte.
The only way to determine codepage is trial and error.
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Possibly there can be one interesting approach to detect codepage similar to
that used in language detection. This is statistics based approach. I mean
n-gram based language detection methods. I haven't met any ready-to-use
framework to detect codepage this way. However, not sure it is worth
implementing.
> Add mime detection and parsing for dbf files
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> Key: TIKA-1513
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1513
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.8
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> I just came across an Apache licensed dbf parser that is available on
> [maven|https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jamel/dbf/dbf-reader/0.1.0/dbf-reader-0.1.0.pom].
> Let's add dbf parsing to Tika.
> Any other recommendations for alternate parsers?
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