[Aperture-devel] [ aperture-Bugs-3455474 ] Some Excel Documents are classified as Word

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Bugs item #3455474, was opened at 2011-12-09 06:46
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Category: None
Group: 1.6.0 - bugs
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Antoni Mylka (mylka)
Assigned to: Antoni Mylka (mylka)
Summary: Some Excel Documents are classified as Word

Initial Comment:
It seems that Tika magic mime type identifier contains to guess that a document is  a word document

<match value="0xd0cf11e0a1b11ae1" type="string" offset="0:8">
  <match value="W\x00o\x00r\x00d\x00D\x00o\x00c\x00u\x00m\x00e\x00n\x00t" type="string" offset="1152:4096" />
</match>

So if a document is an office document (parent office magic) AND has the WordDocument string (characters separated with 0x00 bytes) somewhere, then it's word. Unfortunately this fails with Excel Workbooks which contain embedded Word documents. I'll file a Tika issue.

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>Comment By: Antoni Mylka (mylka)
Date: 2011-12-09 07:05

Message:
Files as https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-806

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