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| Janice_Shania |
 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:01 am Post subject: PDF and .xls in WMQI |
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Can WMQI handle PDFs and excels of any kind?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Define "handle"?
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| elvis_gn |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Hi Janice_Shania,
Does WMQI have a MIME parser ? A support pac for the same ?
In any case, U need to upgrade...
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: |
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What's MIME got to do with PDFs or Excel files?
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| Janice_Shania |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: handling pdfs and .xls |
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By handling i mean, can a pdf be put into a queue and then can any processing be carried out on the contents of the pdf / excel.
I understand that WMB would be able to do this coz it has a MIME parser? Has anyone successfully implemented the same?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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As far as I know, neither PDFs nor Excel files are in MIME format.
PDFs and Excel files might come as MIME attachments, but that's got nothing to do with being able to process the data themselves.
PDF files are... usually... text files. So you can use the BLOB parser to maniuplate their contents, or if you're feeling ambitious you can go get the PDF spec from Adobe and build a message set.
Excel files are usually a proprietary binary format.
Even in 2.1, you can write a Custom Plugin that will use Java code or C code to process a PDF file or an Excel file. You can even find Java code that someone else has written to process PDF and Excel files.
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