[Zope-CMF] TextIndexNG and CMF/Plone - Fulltext Index of Files // Converters

[Andreas Jung]

--On Donnerstag, 19. September 2002 13:15 -0700 hazmat 
<hazmat@objectrealms.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:51 am, Mitja Martini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to use TextIndexNG to index the content of uploaded MSOffice
>> documents in CMF/Plone Files. How can this be accomplished?
>
> you need to convert the msoffice documents into some form of
> useable/understandable text. file objects are treated as binaries blobs,
> whose contents are not indexed.
>
> there are a couple of products floating around that can help in the
> conversion  to text.  nuxdocument @ nuxeo.org , or one of the ms word doc
> types on  zope.org

TextIndexNG supports MS Office documents out-of-the-box by providing
stubs for external converters. There is no need to use other special 
objects.

-aj