SWISH::Filters::xls2txt 0.90 review

SWISH::Filters::xls2txt is a Perl module that can convert Excel docs to text using xls2csv. This is a plug-in module that uses the

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 14K Developer: Peter Karman

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SWISH::Filters::xls2txt is a Perl module that can convert Excel docs to text using xls2csv.

This is a plug-in module that uses the xls2csv program to convert MS Excel documents to text for indexing by Swish-e. xls2csv is part of the catdoc package and can be downloaded from:

http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/

The program xls2csv must be installed and in your PATH.

BUGS

This filter does not specify input or output character encodings.

A minor optimization during spidering (i.e. when docs are in memory instead of on disk) would be to use open2() call to let catdoc read from stdin instead of from a file.

Requirements:
Perl