Viksit Gaur wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if there are plans to update the SWF parser with the
latest Adobe specification? Could someone also shed some light on how
the new specifications could (would?) change the way this parser works?
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Currently the Nutch SWF parser is based on a fairly old library,
Java/SWF. I just browsed through the Open Source Flex SDK, and there is
a chance that the swfutils/ package could provide the text / outlink
extraction functionality that we need. It remains to be seen whether it
works significantly better than the current parser ...
As far as I'm aware there are no plans in Nutch or Tika to write an SWF
parser from scratch, based on this updated specification. If someone
were to submit code that uses swfutils.jar to provide the parsing of new
formats, we will certainly welcome such contribution. :)
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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