Re: Oracle Text / Office 2007 question / 10gR2

On Mar 15, 4:28 pm, "Matthias Hoys" <a..._at_spam.com> wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > 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?
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> > Our application accepts CVs from candidates each of which has to be
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> > We are running on RHEL4 / 10gR2.
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> > jeremy
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> Is that so ? Then this really sucks. Is this because Mickeysoft is
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Isn't that a likely side-effect where the vendor buys the text search filters in and releases a product before the format in question becomes current. Or to put it another way, I expect it will get fixed in due course. Meanwhile I'm sure that you already have certain requirements - for example language the CV is in, it not being in wordstar and all the rest. Temporarily requiring office 07 users to save in a compatible file format shouldn't be a great barrier to anyone who wants to apply for a job.

Niall Litchfield
http://www.orawin.info/ Received on Sat Mar 15 2008 - 13:33:41 CDT