Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
David wrote: Package: tracker Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: serious --- Please enter the report below this line. --- tracker uses o3read to extract the text of OpenOffice documents. In fact, o3read is in the recommendation list of tracker. Nevertheless, o3read has been dropped from the

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Seems like odt2txt can't handle OpenOffice 1.x documents, only ODF. As the name already says. *odt*. ;-) Otherwise it'd say sxw2txt ;-) What about unoconv as an alternative? (Ccing the unoconv maintainer) Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, Seems like odt2txt can't handle OpenOffice 1.x documents, only ODF. As the name already says. *odt*. ;-) Otherwise it'd say sxw2txt ;-) What about unoconv as an alternative? (Ccing the unoconv maintainer) Interesting. What are the ups and downs comparing unoconv

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
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Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Vincent Bernat wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:11:19 +0200, Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like odt2txt can't handle OpenOffice 1.x documents, only ODF. As the name already says. *odt*. ;-) Otherwise it'd say sxw2txt ;-) What about unoconv as an alternative? (Ccing the unoconv

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi people! On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, unoconv needs the complete openoffice.org up and running (and an X server to host it). This may be a bit heavy for an indexing solution. Hm, yeah, that's indeed a bit heavy weight ;-) Any

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread David
Any other alternatives? What about asking the maintainers of recoll and beagle about the solution they use? I do not use beagle because it devours memory, but I think it reads OpenOffice. Regarding recoll, it also reads OpenOffice, is very nice flame and is much more featured than tracker,

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi again! odt2txt (from the odt2txt package) seems to extract text from sxw (at least I think that I am correctly testing it here; file says that the document is OpenOffice.org 1.x Writer document). The final result isn't the same when using sxw2txt (some formatting differences), but it works.

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi again! odt2txt (from the odt2txt package) seems to extract text from sxw (at least I think that I am correctly testing it here; file says that the document is OpenOffice.org 1.x Writer document). The final result isn't the same when using sxw2txt (some

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I must be doing something wrong: $ odt2txt foo.sxw Can't read from foo.sxw: Is it an OpenDocument Text? foo.sxw bein a document created with StarOffice 7.0 (i.e. OpenOffice 1.x) Here is one example:

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi! On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I must be doing something wrong: $ odt2txt foo.sxw Can't read from foo.sxw: Is it an OpenDocument Text? foo.sxw bein a document created with StarOffice 7.0 (i.e. OpenOffice 1.x)

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
David wrote: Any other alternatives? What about asking the maintainers of recoll and beagle about the solution they use? I do not use beagle because it devours memory, but I think it reads OpenOffice. Regarding recoll, it also reads OpenOffice, is very nice flame and is much more featured

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Wed, 21 May 2008 16:47:15 +0200 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was not entirely right. My foo.sxw document must be older. I opened it in OOo 2.4 and SO 7 and saved it under a different name (as sxw) and now I can convert it with odt2txt The only difference I could easily

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-05-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2008-05-21 11:25:25 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Vincent, is it there a newer version of sxw2txt available, please? (or the one that I found is the latest one?) I use my own version available on my web pages: http://www.vinc17.org/unix/index.en.html#sxw2txt

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-04-26 Thread David
Package: tracker Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: serious --- Please enter the report below this line. --- tracker uses o3read to extract the text of OpenOffice documents. In fact, o3read is in the recommendation list of tracker. Nevertheless, o3read has been dropped from the repository in favour

Bug#478091: [tracker] Use odt2txt instead of the removed o3read

2008-04-26 Thread Michael Biebl
severity 478091 important thanks David wrote: Package: tracker Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: serious --- Please enter the report below this line. --- tracker uses o3read to extract the text of OpenOffice documents. In fact, o3read is in the recommendation list of tracker. Nevertheless,