[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-2613) Support extracting content from Microsoft Excel (.xlxs) documents

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-2613:
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Github user jvwing commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/929
  
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> Support extracting content from Microsoft Excel (.xlxs) documents
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>                 Key: NIFI-2613
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2613
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Extensions
>            Reporter: Jeremy Dyer
>            Assignee: Jeremy Dyer
>             Fix For: 1.1.0
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> Microsoft Excel is a wildly popular application that businesses rely heavily on to store, visualize, and calculate data. Any single company most likely has thousands of Excel documents containing data that could be very valuable if ingested via NiFi and combined with other datasources. Apache POI is a popular 100% Java library for parsing several Microsoft document formats including Excel. Apache POI is extremely flexible and can do several things. This issue would focus solely on using Apache POI to parse an incoming .xlxs document and convert it to CSV. The processor should be capable of limiting which excel sheets. CSV seems like the natural choice for outputting each row since this feature is already available in Excel and feels very natural to most Excel sheet designs.
> This capability should most likely introduce a new "poi" module as I envision many more capabilities around parsing Microsoft documents could come from this base effort.



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