The files should not be recognised based on the extension but contents of
the file.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Professional <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>               I am supposed to develop a tool which can identify the
> correct Microsoft Office File types (.doc, .xls, .mdb, .ppt). The tool will
> take an MS office file ( .doc, .xls, .mdb, .ppt) as input and will return
> the file type. OpenOffice opens the correct type of application for each of
> these MS office files so it means OpenOffice have some way to differenciate
> between MS office file types. Can you please help me with this problem? Any
> OpenOffice library which can be helpful to me? anything else you want
> suggest?
>
> Thanks. :)
>
> Saleem
>

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