From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 16:34:34 EDT
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From: Andre Warnier <aw_eis@compuserve.com>
Subject: request
Sender: Andre Warnier <aw_eis@compuserve.com>
To: AbiWord developers <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
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Dear Sirs,
I recently discovered AbiWord (and wvWare). Very nice, and thanks a lot.=
In the course of a development project, I am looking for a command-line
driven Word-to-text conversion utility, preferably working both under
Unix(es) and Windows NT/2000. It is to be called by a "daemon/service"
process, so it should not pop up interactive messages/questions all over
the place.
In the system being developed, the original document is kept and stored f=
or
later retrieval, and the text result of the conversion is destined to be
input in a full-text search & retrieval system. This text result can als=
o
be post-filtered by various means before being sent to the full-text
system.
(I could also take XML output e.g.).
In other words - in a manner of speaking - the text result does not have =
to
be faithful to the original word document in terms of presentation, layou=
t
etc..., what is important is that the words would be there, mostly. The
expected character set of the original word documents would be in the
ISO-8859-1 range.
I am not a guru-level programmer, more someone able to assemble existing
pieces and twiddle with them to make them fit into an application.
I have looked at various commercially available converters, but none of
them seems to be available for Unix platforms.
I have tried to use wvWare under Windows NT, and cannot seem to make it
work reliably : some documents make it crash with invalid accesses etc..
On the other hand, I have installed AbiWord under NT - which is supposedl=
y
using the wvWare import library - and AbiWord seems to do an excellent jo=
b
of importing the same Word documents, and save them as plain text. And
AbiWord is also much much easier to install on a NT system.
I am thus turning to you with a request : would a developer in your group=
be interested in creating, on the base of the AbiWord modules, the
command-line utility that I need (or a command-line wrapper around
AbiWord), and if yes under what conditions ?
I have no problem with the utility in question being placed itself under =
a
GPL.
Thank you in advance,
Andr=E9 Warnier
EIS LP
tel +49-7433-385419
fax +49-7433-385418
email : aw_eis@compuserve.com
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