Ferret talk - Nov 2006 - acts_as_ferret and searching word docs

I was wondering if it is possible to search word documents using ferret. 
The actual text in a word document isn''t in a binary format - only the 
formatting. Surely it would be possible to parse that?

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Alex MacCaw wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to search word documents using ferret. 
> The actual text in a word document isn''t in a binary format - only
the
> formatting. Surely it would be possible to parse that?
You might be able to use some of the extensions for M$ platform and ruby 
to use COM to get the data.  Or if you don''t want to run on M$ platform
you could possibly use Java''s POI from Jakarta to parse out the text
and
put it into something that Ruby could then put into ferret.

Charlie

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Charlie Hubbard wrote:
> Alex MacCaw wrote:
>> I was wondering if it is possible to search word documents using
ferret.
>> The actual text in a word document isn''t in a binary format -
only the
>> formatting. Surely it would be possible to parse that?
> 
> You might be able to use some of the extensions for M$ platform and ruby 
> to use COM to get the data.  Or if you don''t want to run on M$
platform
> you could possibly use Java''s POI from Jakarta to parse out the
text and
> put it into something that Ruby could then put into ferret.
> 
> Charlie
> 
Or there''s Abiword - runs on all platforms, and ouputs nice text.  If 
you don''t want graphical dependencies, there''s wvWare, too. 
I''m using
it at the moment.

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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Charlie Hubbard
wrote:
> Alex MacCaw wrote:
> > I was wondering if it is possible to search word documents using
ferret.
> > The actual text in a word document isn''t in a binary format -
only the
> > formatting. Surely it would be possible to parse that?
> 
> You might be able to use some of the extensions for M$ platform and ruby 
> to use COM to get the data.  Or if you don''t want to run on M$
platform
> you could possibly use Java''s POI from Jakarta to parse out the
text and
> put it into something that Ruby could then put into ferret.
I successfully used the wv-utilities (wvText or wvHtml, on debian do
''apt-get install wv'') to index word documents with Ferret.

you can have a look at RDig (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rdig) to see
an example of how this could be done.

Jens

 

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> I successfully used the wv-utilities (wvText or wvHtml, on debian do
> ''apt-get install wv'') to index word documents with
Ferret.
Thanks Jens,
Is there any way to do this on windows - or I''ll just have to wait till
I deploy on linux.

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