[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Essay Response - Plagiarism

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:00:32 -0400

Hi Guy,

On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Guy Albertelli II wrote:

>
>>> Does it work on things like word documents?
>>
>> Nope. Word is a binary proprietary format. A while ago I played with
>> some libraries to decode that stuff, but gave up.
>
> I have good luck with catdoc in the past:
> http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/

My problem was that I could not get anything to work as a library. I  
did not want to spawn additional processes.

- Gerd.