Nick Burch created TIKA-1490:
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Summary: Basic parser for old Excel files (eg Excel 4)
Key: TIKA-1490
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1490
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: parser
Affects Versions: 1.6
Reporter: Nick Burch
In TIKA-1487, we added mime magic for the pre-OLE2 excel file formats. Based on
the reading of the OpenOffice Excel docs for that, it looks like it should be
possible to produce a basic parser to extract key bits of info (eg strings)
from these older file formats.
This would likely largely be done by having a custom record iterator for the
older formats, then passing the handful of "interesting" records to POI's
record classes (maybe with some tweaks for the older formats) to have the
binary data parsed, then returned by the parser
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