Ryan Ackley wrote:
As the author of both Word POI and textmining.org, I recommend using
textmining.org. POI is for general purpose manipulation of Word
documents. textmining's only purpose is extracting text.
I wish the two would collaborate though. It's true that POI contains
code for writing which isn't necessary for indexing. But it's also true
that POI contains code for extracting images, which for many projects
*is* necessary.
Also, people recommend using POI for text extraction but the only
place I've seen an actual how-to on this is in the "Lucene in Action"
book.
It's not too difficult though:
doc.getTextTable().getTextPieces();
Downside of that approach is that some of the text you get back isn't
"text" in the sense that you might expect. (I consider it an upside
myself, because sometimes it's good to find all this otherwise hidden text.)
Daniel
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