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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-2069:
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Yes! If you wrote a VB Script, and zipped it up, it'd be a {{text/x-vbasic}}
with no extra metadata. When you add a macro to an office doc, you get the
macro text but also some metadata. We wouldn't need a parser for
{[text/x-vbasic}}, only for {{application/vnd.ms-office.vbaProject}} which
would expose the embedded script text + metadata
> Extract Macro text from Microsoft Office documents
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-2069
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2069
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: detector, parser
> Affects Versions: 1.13
> Environment: RHEL 5.x, Apache Tomcat
> Reporter: Jeff Swindle
> Labels: features
> Attachments: excel-macro.PNG, test-macro-doc.docm,
> test-macro-doc.docm-tika-app-output.txt, word-macro.PNG, xlsmacro.xlsm,
> xlsmacro.xlsm.tika-app-output.txt
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> Tika supports macro-enabled Microsoft Office documents by extracting metadata
> and contents, however, macros within the document are not in the metadata or
> content output.
> Desire is to have the macro text extracted also.
> Info regarding macro extraction: http://www.decalage.info/vba_tools
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