NAME
SWISH::Filters::xls2txt - convert Excel docs to text using xls2csv
DESCRIPTION
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.
AUTHOR
Peter Karman perl@peknet.com