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Oracle Text: Can we use it to read/write Microsoft Excel and Word?

 
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Open source POI can be used to read and write in Microsoft Office format files in Java. How good is Oracle Text compared with POI?
 
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Matt,
I can't say definitively, but I thought Oracle Text was for searching documents?
 
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Matt,
I can't say definitively, but I thought Oracle Text was for searching documents?



You're correct... document search and document classification is its primary purpose. Results can be returned from the LOB in html, xml, or the original document format.

The rendering of the document in its original format (word, pdf, etc.) is an artifact LOB storage and retrieval.
 
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