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Pascal Essiembre edited comment on TIKA-1946 at 12/21/16 9:02 PM:
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WordPerfect extensions vary quite a bit. But the parser I wrote is based on WP
Version 6. I suspect it supports higher versions as well, but definitely not
lower. According to this document,
http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/wpx4/corel-wordperfect-office-X4-reviewers-guide.pdf
.wp extensions can be for both WP5.x and WP6.x so we can't rely on extension
as an indicator of anything. Since the major version should definitely be 2,
I agree we should use that to throw an exception when not that. I could not
find enough evidence in my earlier research of older version signatures, other
than 0xD0CF11E0A1B11AE1 for some, which conflicts with MS Word (maybe why it
can open those). I wonder if we should remove or have separate entries for
these mime times then in tika-miketypes.xml?
{code:xml}
<alias type="application/wordperfect"/>
<alias type="application/wordperfect5.1"/>
{code}
That's assuming application/wordperfect is for older versions as well.
was (Author: pascal.essiembre):
WordPerfect extensions vary quite a bit. But the parser I wrote is based on WP
Version 6. I suspect it supports higher versions as well, but definitely not
lower. According to this document,
http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/wpx4/corel-wordperfect-office-X4-reviewers-guide.pdf
.wp extensions can be for both WP5.x and WP6.x so we can't rely on extension
as an indicator of anything. Since the major version should definitely be 2,
I agree we should use that to throw an exception when not that. I could not
find enough evidence of earlier version signatures, other than
0xD0CF11E0A1B11AE1 for some, which conflicts with MS Word (maybe why it can
open those). I wonder if we should remove or have separate entries for these
mime times then in tika-miketypes.xml?
{code:xml}
<alias type="application/wordperfect"/>
<alias type="application/wordperfect5.1"/>
{code}
That's assuming application/wordperfect is for older versions as well.
> Add mime detection and parser for WordPerfect
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> Key: TIKA-1946
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1946
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mime, parser
> Reporter: Nick C
> Fix For: 2.0, 1.15
>
>
> I noticed some code on github for parsing WordPerfect files
> (https://github.com/Norconex/importer) Also looks like the author
> [~pascal.essiembre] has contributed to Tika before
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