Re: [htdig] office document converters

[Martin A. <al...@ar...>]

			Hi David,


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:02:35PM +0100, David Adams wrote:
> Martin,
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> This is a joke, yes?
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> If not, please note that the Lucene FAQs make it clear that it is equally
> dependant on external parsers.

That's what a colleague recommended to me: to look in the lucene FAQ's
whether there is any alternative to the already mentioned parsers..

Honestly, I didn't take a look first before writing my email. :(

Fact is: indexing some webtree with the mentioned ppthtml, xlhtml or
xpdf takes ten times longer with a load of 10 on a dualproc Sun V480 with
4G RAM. Indexing only .doc files and .html rundig completes in about 30mins.

I discover hanging ppthtml and xlhtml processes, consuming nearly 95% CPU
and consuming about 1GB RAM for each document. Of course, those processes
don't come back and have to be killed... :(

> We use wp2html to convert Word documents and it's fine,but we bought it o=
nly
> because we needed to convert Wordperfect documents (not that we get many!)
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> David Adams

Yours,

Martin

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