Re: Oracle Text / Office 2007 question / 10gR2

In article <47dbf8b7$0$2951$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be>, Matthias Hoys says...
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> "jeremy" <jeremy0505_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2245ac3fa3cc1b1598a4d8_at_news.individual.net...
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > As I understand it Oracle Text in 10gR2 is not able to text index .docx
> > files generated by MS Office 2007. As the use of this format is only
> > going to increase (and we have to allow for this type of file) have any
> > of you come across this problem and did you devise a workaround for it?
> >
> > Our application accepts CVs from candidates each of which has to be
> > indexed.
> >
> > We are running on RHEL4 / 10gR2.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > --
> > jeremy
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> Is that so ? Then this really sucks. Is this because Mickeysoft is
> protecting that document format ?
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No idea on the reasons - discovered that this was the case with the current app testing on 10gR2. The format has been out for some time I am surprised Oracle hasn't been quicker to respond. A check in the Oracle technet (?) forum turned up a response from someone saying they were aware of the problem in Oracle, hoped to have a solution and backported to earlier releases (so assume 10g) but that no dates had been announced.

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jeremy