Re: Oracle Text / Office 2007 question / 10gR2

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:20:16 +0100
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jeremy wrote:
> Hi
>
> As I understand it Oracle Text in 10gR2 is not able to text index .docx
> files generated by MS Office 2007.

Ah - the beauty of prohibiting cutting egde technology!

Just curious - why do you think over 5 year old technology can handle this years propriety formats?

> 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?
>

Really? Why will it's use increase?
> Our application accepts CVs from candidates each of which has to be
> indexed.
>
> We are running on RHEL4 / 10gR2.
>

Updat to MicroSoft Windows 2008 server with SQL Server 2008.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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