[brailleblaster] Re: Content importers

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:50:08 -0500

Hi Francois,

We looked at tika two years ago near the start of the project. At that 
time ikt's results just weren't good enough. It may have developed 
considerablyt since then. The main question is whether it will now 
produce xml files that meet our requirements.

John

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:38:40AM -0400, Francois wrote:
> Hi, and Happy Independence Day to our American friends!
> I am looking at the various content types that we may want to import into
> BrailleBlaster, and the Apache TIKA toolkit facilitates the importing of
> most known documents types including old and new Word formats, RTF,
> OpenDocument, XML, etc. even compressed documents and email messages.
> 
> Has anyone worked on this before? That would save us lots of development
> time. I am having fun at this...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> François.

-- 
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities


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