[greenstone-devel] greenstone with wvware on Cygwin From: Bram Van_Oosterhout Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:17:18 +0930

[greenstone-devel] greenstone with wvware on Cygwin

From	Bram Van_Oosterhout
Date	Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:17:18 +0930
Subject	[greenstone-devel] greenstone with wvware on Cygwin
> Dear All, > I installed greenstone 2.51 on a DELL Inspiron 7000 (Pentium II, 333 Mhz, > 127 Mbyte of ram). > > As my collections have a lot of Word documents, I rely on wvware to do the > parsing. The standard installation (with wv 0.7.4) gave me a success rate > of 40%. 7 out of a sample of 11 documents failed conversion. > > I recently found that there are updates for wvware on > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/ > I installed wv 1.0.2. It required some fiddling, but nothing too hard. > > The good news is that I now parse 90%. Only 1 out of the sample of 11 > fails (with Signal 11) > > The bad news is that the conversion is very slow. The 10 documents took 9 > hours to convert to HTML. They are all a similar format. Tables, graphics > and text. 3 to 5 pages. > > I intend to move to a faster processor and a Linux implementation later in > the year. I expect that to be much faster. > > In the mean time, is there anyone with better experience with respect to > the cygwin greenstone/wvware implementation? > > regards.... > > Bram van Oosterhout \| KAZ Technology Services (incorporating Aspect > Computing) \| Ph: +612 6247 7677 \| Fx: +612 6249 1620 \| > "Legal Notice - confidentiality, viruses and opinions - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately; delete this email from your system; and do not read, distribute, print, store or copy this email or take any action in reliance on its contents. KAZ Group Limited ACN 002 124 405 and its related bodies corporate KAZ Technology Services accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted with this email. Any views or opinions contained in this email are solely those of the author and do not represent those of KAZ unless expressly otherwise stated."