[TIKA-1958] Add mime detection and lightweight parsers for Office 2003 Word and Excel formats

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.14, 2.0.0
• Assignee: Tim Allison
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 21/Apr/16 17:17
• Updated: 12/Apr/21 12:59
• Resolved: 13/May/16 18:25

Description

Over on POI, a user asked if we supported 2003 xls (xml) files. It would be neat if we could add mime detection and a "good enough" parser to handle 2003 xls and doc files.

This could be a great task for someone wanting to get started in contributing to Tika.

references:
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/poi-user/201604.mbox/%3Calpine.BSO.2.20.1604210825140.22929%40ref.nmedia.net%3E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226687(v=office.11).aspx