Recommended helper applications

Tue, 2008-03-11 21:10 — mark

In order to use search_attachments.module, you will need the appropriate helper apps on the same computer that Drupal is running on. These apps need to print out extracted text to standard output; currently, search_attachments cannot read extracted text that is saved to a file.

search_attachments version 5.x-4 and later comes with a built-in PHP helper for .txt and .csv files. No external helper is necessary.

File type	Helper	Platform(s)	Sample path
.doc	catdoc	*nix, Win	/usr/bin/catdoc %file%
.doc	wv	Win	c:\wvWare.exe %file%
.pdf	pdftotext	*nix, Win	c:\pdftotext\pdftotext.exe %file% -
.ppt	catppt	*nix, Win	/usr/local/bin/catppt %file%
.xls	xls2csv	*nix, Win	/usr/local/bin/xls2csv %file%

If you have gotten any other helpers to work, I'd love to hear about them.

search_attachments

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Wed, 2008-03-12 05:03 — Tim (not verified)

.ppt powerpoint *nix

.ppt powerpoint *nix /usr/local/bin/catppt %file%
.xls excel *nix /usr/local/bin/xls2csv %file%

xls2csv seems to rely on receiving a valid "header" from the file adn will fail if it doesn't get it

from memory, this has something to do with ISO coding <== don't ask me I just read lotsa stuff and can't remember half of it :|

tim

Wed, 2008-03-12 07:31 — mark

Awesome, thanks

Thanks Tim, I'll add these to the list.

Thu, 2008-03-20 02:17 — Tim (not verified)

Helpers - Antiword

M$ will do a "fast-save"

Rather than write a complete .doc, it just appends the changes to the end of the file

Catdoc does not like this

httpd_error.log : [This was fast-saved 1 times. Some information is lost]

Antiword can read most of these and increase parsed file numbers

Will extract from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003

Only hassle seems to be that last update was in 2005 - tho the website ( http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ ) has been updated more recently

Mon, 2008-03-31 01:11 — Dinis (not verified)

Mark's web presence nothing very exciting, just some guy's web presence

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