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Hi guys, I've been noticing more and more that antiword has trouble with many word documents. It may look like it's converted a document but leaves out headings and bits of text. I've been looking into getting openoffice to do it in headless mode but still have a way to go before it's stable. I was wondering if anyone else had any luck on this front? One quick fix I have found

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? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I've had a heads up from a user that catppt did not work at all on semi-recent PowerPoint files (ppt, not pptx). I checked, and indeed it misses most of the content on many files. After looking around, I found Python code from the libreoffice project which makes a nice ppt text extractor after adding a very thin command line wrapper:

Hello list. After using various issue tracking packages that included a lot of typework and maintenance , we decided to build one of our own, focusing at ease of use. We would appreciate your opinion, but be gentle it''s somewhat beta :) http://www.bugja.com Screencast at http://www.bugja.com/screencast It''s ROR of course :) Thanks in advance Fortytwo http://www.fortytwo.gr