Word95 and earlier versions

["Bracken, Patrick" <Pa...@finra.org>]

Hi, I am attempting to use Tika to extract content from .doc files for
search indexing purposes. I have run into some exceptions thrown when
looking at documents mad in an old version of word. Is there any plan to
add support for this or a way to get around it?

 

Thanks,

 

Patrick Bracken

FINRA



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Re: Word95 and earlier versions

[Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Bracken, Patrick wrote:
> Hi, I am attempting to use Tika to extract content from .doc files for 
> search indexing purposes. I have run into some exceptions thrown when 
> looking at documents mad in an old version of word. Is there any plan to 
> add support for this or a way to get around it?

See TIKA-408 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-408> for details. 
Support is now in POI, and Tika will handle Word 7 and Word 95 documents 
once the next POI beta release is out. That'll hopefully be within the 
next fortnight

Nick