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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-360: --------------------------------- Fractions will be supported when we upgrade to POI 3.8 beta 6 / 3.8 Final Are there any other areas we still need to enhance? > Outstanding Improvements to Number/Date Formatting in ExcelParser > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-360 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-360 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: parser > Environment: All Operating Systems (Seen on my Ubuntu 9.10, Solaris > 10 and Windows 7 instances) > Reporter: Dave Meikle > Assignee: Dave Meikle > > As highlighted in TIKA-103, there are issues with Tikas parsing of Excel > files due to the way Excel stores dates as numbers as well as the formatting > applied by POI for these numbers. To provide base support for number/date > formatting an initial patch was applied as part of TIKA-103 to apply POI's > out-of-the-box formatting. > This issue is being raised to capture the progress of addressing outstanding > formatting issues such as Fractions within the POI library. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira