Class DOCParser

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Parser

    public class DOCParser
    extends RTFParser
    Parses a MS Word (*.doc, *.dot) file to extract the text contained in the file. This class uses the external library HWPF provided by the Apache Jakarta POI project. Even though this library provides features to extract the document author and version, we do not use those features, because the library is known to be buggy. The important part is to get the text content, not extracting the author, date, etc. is not essential.
    Since:
    3.5
    Author:
    Michael Scholz, Sebastian Stein, Alessandro Gasparini - LogicalDOC
    • Constructor Detail

      • DOCParser

        public DOCParser()
    • Method Detail

      • parse

        public String parse​(InputStream input,
                            String filename,
                            String encoding,
                            Locale locale,
                            String tenant)
        Description copied from interface: Parser
        * Extracts content for the text content of the given binary document. The content type and character encoding (if available and applicable) are given as arguments.

        The implementation can choose either to read and parse the given document immediately or to return a reader that does it incrementally. The only constraint is that the implementation must close the given stream latest when the returned reader is closed. The caller on the other hand is responsible for closing the returned reader.

        The implementation should only throw an exception on transient errors, i.e. when it can expect to be able to successfully extract the text content of the same binary at another time. An effort should be made to recover from syntax errors and other similar problems.

        This method should be thread-safe, i.e. it is possible that this method is invoked simultaneously by different threads to extract the text content of different documents. On the other hand the returned reader does not need to be thread-safe.

        The parsing has to be completed before the seconds specified in the parser.timeout config. property.

        Specified by:
        parse in interface Parser
        Overrides:
        parse in class AbstractParser
        Parameters:
        input - binary content from which to extract the text
        filename - name of the file
        encoding - character encoding
        locale - the locale
        tenant - name of the tenant
        Returns:
        the extracted text