Ralph, We're (from having been burnt before), quite vary of dead code. Therefore, its good to hear you chime in with offer to help. And I certainly do hope Sudhakar is interested in further developing this functionality.
However, first we need to ensure that the author wants the code in POI in the first place. Regards - Avik On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 21:05, Ralph Scheuer wrote: > (To whom it may concern) > > Hello everybody, > > in the course of the last months, I have searched for a free Java > framework that can process PowerPoint files. > > Some days ago, I finally found something here: > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-slide/src/share/org/apache/ > slide/extractor/ > > Apparently, one would not expect such things in Slide but rather in > POI. Slide's extractors were contributed by Ryan Rhodes. I have tested > these at first and this weekend I finally discovered Sudhakar Chavali's > classes. This was cross-posted to the Slide User mailing list and the > POI User mailing list. > > Sudhakar's classes are even better than those by Ryan Rhodes as they > even take care of the document structure. I have just integrated this > code into a production framework and fixed an issue where non-ASCII > characters (in my case German umlauts) were not displayed correctly. > All in all, this seems to be some really good work that might be able > to help a lot of people. > > Avik Sengupta has already asked Sudhakar if he wants his work to become > part of POI. > > While I do not want to impact his own decision of whether he wants to > keep maintaining this code or not, I just wanted to inform you that > there is some really good code available to deal with PowerPoint files > and that this might also be a starting point for integrating even more > PowerPoint functionality into POI. > > I just wondered why this code is in Slide and not in POI and whether > there has already been conversation across the different groups. IMHO > POI would be a good place for this functionality (the text extraction > part is certainly also interesting for the Lucene guys). > > Once Sudhakar's code is in the right hands, I will certainly contribute > any fixes we have for this code. If there is anything else I can do to > help with this issue, let me know, but keep in mind that I have not > been involved in any Jakarta project until now, so I may have to learn > a lot. > > Kind regards, > > Ralph Scheuer > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
