Re all I think, that it could be interesting for Tika developers - MS published videos of presentations on office binary file formats, that was made during seminar at Microsoft campus - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeinteroperability/archive/2010/11/10/interoperability-videos-and-presentations.aspx
-- With best wishes, Alex Ott, MBA http://alexott.net/ Tiwtter: alexott_en (English), alexott (Russian) Skype: alex.ott