Re: MS word version supported in wvWare or Abiword

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:30 -0800, Tim Dionne wrote:
> Hello all --
>
> My company, Collabnet, uses wv to strain microsoft word documents in
> order to index them for searching purposes. I recently submitted a
> patch that was accepted by Dom, and committed to trunk (r22872). We are
> using v1.0.0, which is very old. I'm exploring the possibility of
> upgrading to the latest version. After reading the home page for wv, I
> see that it supports Word 2000 docs and earlier. I know it is
> successfully straining Word 2003 docs. Is it a bad idea to assume it
> will continue to strain doc files for Word 2003? Do current version of
> wv or AbiWord officially support Word 2003 docs? I've been searching the
> web site, but can't find any official statements about this. I would
> consider using AbiWord to do the straining, but it seems like overkill
> since we don't need to GUI component.
>
> Thanks for your time.

Hi Tim,
        wv will work fine on Word-2003 files. If you are doing your
straining on a unix server you can use the AbiCommand plugin to do some
far more sophisticated stuff and much better html conversions.

See:

http://msevior.livejournal.com/8055.html

Cheers

Martin
Received on Fri Feb 22 02:24:48 2008