https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438455
Bug ID: 438455
Summary: Baloo doesn't index Microsoft Office .doc files
Product: frameworks-baloo
Version: 5.82.0
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Baloo File Daemon
Assignee: stefan.bru...@rwth-aachen.de
Reporter: skierp...@gmail.com
CC: baloo-bugs-n...@kde.org, n...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
`baloosearch` couldn't locate a word processing file with a term in it. It was
a .doc file, not .docx or .odt.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. In LibreOffice Writer, create a document containing just
"baloopleaseindexme"
2. File > Save As in Word 97-2003 format as baloo_indexing_test.doc in some
directory that Baloo indexes.
3. In a terminal, run `baloosearch baloopleaseindexme`
4. In a terminal, run `balooshow -x /path/to/baloo_indexing_test.doc
OBSERVED RESULT
The document contents aren't indexed, so baloosearch for the content fails.
balooshow doesn't list any words in the document, just
Terms: Mapplication Mmsword T5 X19-0 X20-0
EXPECTED RESULT
baloo should index these files as it does .odt and .docx files.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2 on Wayland
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
There are tools to extract text from MSOffice files, e.g.
% flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice --invisible --convert-to txt
--outdir /tmp/ /path/to/baloo_indexing_test.doc
will convert a .doc file to .txt. And TDF/DocumentLiberation project offers
introspection tools like mso-dumper's doc-dump which dumps in some weird XML
format.
In the interim this limitation should be mentioned somewhere, but I can't see
where Baloo describes the file types whose content it does index.
I don't know if Baloo indexes contents of other MS Office 1990-2000 formats.
Again, I should have to create test files to find out, known limitations should
be documented.
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