Word doc search
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I modified the standard /includes/SpecialUpload.php page so that uploaded Microsoft Word documents with the .doc extension will have their contents indexable.
I started by downloading and installing the Antiword tool (I installed it from this RPM. It is a Linux command line utility that will convert a Word doc's text to ASCII and output it.
Then I modified SpecialUpload.php where it tests for a successful upload and just before it inserts the uploaded file information into the database. What this does is make the text of the word document (including 'hidden' text - that's the -s parameter of antiword) an HTML comment block in the description text of the image's file page.
A user must change their preferences to search Images to be able to search the image's page.
if( $this->saveUploadedFile( $this->mUploadSaveName,
$this->mUploadTempName,
!empty( $this->mSessionKey ) ) ) {
/**
* Update the upload log and create the description page
* if it's a new file.
*/
# MHART replace $textdesc with <!-- text from doc if .d
if (strtolower($finalExt) == "doc") {
$NewDesc = $this->mUploadDescription . "\r\n" . "<!-- ";
$toexec = "/usr/bin/antiword -s " . $this->mSavedFile;
exec($toexec, $DocText);
foreach ($DocText as $DocLine) {
$NewDesc .= "\r\n" . str_replace("-->","",$DocLine);
}
$NewDesc .= "\r\n" . " -->";
}
else
$NewDesc = $this->mUploadDescription;
####
wfRecordUpload( $this->mUploadSaveName,
$this->mUploadOldVersion,
$this->mUploadSize,
$NewDesc, # MHART - this line has been changed
$this->mUploadCopyStatus,
$this->mUploadSource );
$this->showSuccess();
}
My actual script is a bit different - because I'm handling other file types in similar fashion. Here's the combined documentation.
--MHart 17:54, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)