Use Antiword instead of catdoc on Wintel

SABsearch2 · 09-07-2006, 07:29 AM

I've been integrating phpdig on a Windows 2003 serveur.

There's a problem with catdoc on this platform.
- The official provider of catdoc is not supporting windows but DOS.
- The unofficial provider of catdoc for windows is using an older version of the product.

I don't know about the new version but with the old here are the problems :
- images within document are not skipped. They are transformed into text ... So the result is a very huge text and a wrong indexing.
- performance are bad since the program is using "standard output" and is not offering "file output". phpdig is going faster when using "file output".
- You take the two points above a you just have an everlasting indexing process (+ your server climb to 99% CPU and you lost the contact with it).

I've tried antiword instead. The images are correctly skipped and the performance are 10 times faster.

Dave A · 10-04-2006, 02:24 AM

Thanks for pointing that out I shall look at using it to see how well it performs.
It is always good to read about other implementations.

09-07-2006, 07:29 AM	#1
SABsearch2 Awaiting Email Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3	Use Antiword instead of catdoc on Wintel I've been integrating phpdig on a Windows 2003 serveur. There's a problem with catdoc on this platform. - The official provider of catdoc is not supporting windows but DOS. - The unofficial provider of catdoc for windows is using an older version of the product. I don't know about the new version but with the old here are the problems : - images within document are not skipped. They are transformed into text ... So the result is a very huge text and a wrong indexing. - performance are bad since the program is using "standard output" and is not offering "file output". phpdig is going faster when using "file output". - You take the two points above a you just have an everlasting indexing process (+ your server climb to 99% CPU and you lost the contact with it). I've tried antiword instead. The images are correctly skipped and the performance are 10 times faster.

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10-04-2006, 02:24 AM	#2
Dave A Purple Mole Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Island New Zealand Posts: 170	Thanks for pointing that out I shall look at using it to see how well it performs. It is always good to read about other implementations.