Indexing VISIO diagram

Faiz · Post by **Faiz** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 4:04 pm

Hello,
I want to index the text in a VISIO 2000 diagram using the dowalk script. What I did was added,
<case "vsd"><dofilt opt="-fother" dt="Visio"><return>
in the function doplugin.
Though it indexed the document, but when I searched for a text it didn't show up. On looking at the Body of the table, I found many words are broken and incomplete and some A, B, C, D characters are stored.
For example, "User Request for Datamart Access" became "User Req uest for DataMA0 Access". Is there any limitation to these type of documents or am i making a mistake in indexing them?
Please help.

Regards,

Post by **mark** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 4:50 pm

That's not a format that the plugin is familiar with so it just does it's best. Apparently that format won't allow a generic filter extract the words from it accurately. It would need a specific handler.

Faiz · Post by **Faiz** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 5:08 pm

Thanx for the prompt reply. Is there any way I can index .vsd documents, 'cause our customers are asking for it? Any hints??

Regards,

Post by **mark** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 5:44 pm

As I said, we don't currently know how to process those. You might write/acquire a program that can extract the text from them and use that instead of our plugin for those files.