Often this wouldn't be possible, because if the converter can't get any
HTML out of a file, no text can be extracted -- and there won't be a
Greenstone document created. However, all plugins that inherit from
ConvertToPlug have the ability to extract simple text strings from a
document -- these may not be high quality, but they are usually better
than nothing. You can turn this on with the "-use_strings" option to
WordPlug, whose description is "If set, a simple strings function will be
called to extract text if the conversion utility fails."

Hope this helps,

Michael

Doug Carter wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Occasionally, we get complex documents that cause vwWare to crash,
> which in turn fails to process the given Word document. Is there a way
> to configure the WordPlug so that even if it can't convert the document
> into HTML, it will still process (and include) the source document?
>
> TIA,
>
> Doug Carter
> Mercy Corps
>
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