Hello Every Body, Ralph,
That's a great code :-). I am always willing to work with the POI team and contribute my works to this great community. Actually I was working with these parsers since three months and I was not able to concentrate on POI mailing list because of tight schedules I have. Actually when Ryan Ackely left the team, at that time only I have plans to join the team. But because of tight schedules, I was not able to participate in the discussion at that time. Now I am free from them and can able to concentrate now. So, I would like to know what's the status of the POI and which parts of POI I can contribute my work. Regards Sudhakar --- Avik Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph, > > We're (from having been burnt before), quite vary of dead code. > Therefore, its good to hear you chime in with offer to help. And I > certainly do hope Sudhakar is interested in further developing this > functionality. > > However, first we need to ensure that the author wants the code in POI > in the first place. > > Regards > - > Avik > > > > > > > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 21:05, Ralph Scheuer wrote: > > (To whom it may concern) > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > in the course of the last months, I have searched for a free Java > > framework that can process PowerPoint files. > > > > Some days ago, I finally found something here: > > > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-slide/src/share/org/apache/ > > slide/extractor/ > > > > Apparently, one would not expect such things in Slide but rather in > > POI. Slide's extractors were contributed by Ryan Rhodes. I have tested > > these at first and this weekend I finally discovered Sudhakar Chavali's > > classes. This was cross-posted to the Slide User mailing list and the > > POI User mailing list. > > > > Sudhakar's classes are even better than those by Ryan Rhodes as they > > even take care of the document structure. I have just integrated this > > code into a production framework and fixed an issue where non-ASCII > > characters (in my case German umlauts) were not displayed correctly. > > All in all, this seems to be some really good work that might be able > > to help a lot of people. > > > > Avik Sengupta has already asked Sudhakar if he wants his work to become > > part of POI. > > > > While I do not want to impact his own decision of whether he wants to > > keep maintaining this code or not, I just wanted to inform you that > > there is some really good code available to deal with PowerPoint files > > and that this might also be a starting point for integrating even more > > PowerPoint functionality into POI. > > > > I just wondered why this code is in Slide and not in POI and whether > > there has already been conversation across the different groups. IMHO > > POI would be a good place for this functionality (the text extraction > > part is certainly also interesting for the Lucene guys). > > > > Once Sudhakar's code is in the right hands, I will certainly contribute > > any fixes we have for this code. If there is anything else I can do to > > help with this issue, let me know, but keep in mind that I have not > > been involved in any Jakarta project until now, so I may have to learn > > a lot. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Ralph Scheuer > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== "No one can earn a million dollars honestly."- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
