powerpoint crawling

surfer71 · Post by **surfer71** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:02 pm

Hi,

Webinator version: Webinator 4.4.9-Unix-w/plugin
I am able to successfully crawl ppt files but the results show lot of garbage characters. Is there any way to fix that?
Thanks in advance.

Post by **mark** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:57 pm

The plugin is geared more towards making the text searchable than looking pretty. It's normal to get some extra junk with some formats sometimes. Is the expected text there?

surfer71 · Post by **surfer71** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:07 pm

Thanks for the quick reply.
The expected text is there inside the presentation but the results shows like this:

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URL: http://espnfield/...sales/pages/asm/ESP ... r02_03.ppt

Post by **mark** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:51 pm

I meant, is the expected text there in the database? Click "Match info" to see all the text that was extracted.

Can you give the actual url for an example ppt?

surfer71 · Post by **surfer71** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:26 am

Yes, I can see the text underlined when I click on "preview document matches".
I can't give you the url as its on our intranet site but I can send it to you via email.

Post by **mark** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:06 am

You can open a tech support ticket using the "Tech Support" link on the left.