On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:11 PM, John Joseph Bachir wrote: >> Now this is just wrong. PPT files may contain all sorts of binary >> data, such as images and videos. I just had a look at the sample >> presentation that came with my Office installation. This file is >> 3.5MB in size with a (plain text) payload of less than 1KB. > > As I stated in my previous email, I am conjecturing that indexing > these documents will not affect search performance. Do you disagree?
I couldn't disagree more. Question is to what extent does it affect performance. >> I'm sure there's some tool available which converts PPT to plain text >> and I strongly recommend you go out and find it. > > I've searched far and wide and have found none. Seems like you found one now :) Good Luck! -- Andy _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
