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[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-2247) Extract text from WMF/EMF files

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2247?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15830217#comment-15830217 ] 

Tim Allison commented on TIKA-2247:
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For testing, I've extracted wmf/emf files from our regression corpus and posted them here: http://162.242.228.174/embedded_files/xmfs.tar.bz2 (301MB).  

> Extract text from WMF/EMF files
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-2247
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2247
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Tim Allison
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Some EMF and WMF files store text in a way similar to PDFs.  With the existing WMF parser and the newly added EMF parser in POI, we should be able to do a reasonable job of extracting text from these file types.



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