DLLify the main parsing stuff

[konsumer]

I'm working on the beginnings of a pure-javascript catdoc, based on this project. As I look at this code (which is totally excellent, by the way) I keep thinking that if it were a DLL with everything but the CLI options parser & file-reader, it would be easier to integrate into lots of languages. I could use emscripten to compile it to client-side javascript (like sweet client-side doc upload widgets), and write thin ffi wrappers for other languages (like nodejs, python, lua, ruby, etc.)

[cmosguy]

@konsumer hopefully you made progress here. Perhaps you could try to make it so that it is still compatible in linux world? That is where I see the main motivation to use this util.

Cheers!

[konsumer]

Totally. I just mean it as a general concept. I use a Mac, so it's .so for both of us. I'm not super-strong with C, so it goes very slow. I'd be happy to do the wrappers and emscripten compilation, but maybe it would make more sense for a C-person to do the other stuff, if there's interest. I'll keep working on it, though, if no one else wants to do it.

[cmosguy]

The original author has a git repository here: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/git/oss/catdoc.git he has updated this and I think the code in this branch is out of date. you may want to see if he can move his code into github or just do a merge for him. Anyways, this doesn't really answer your question, but good luck on your quest.

[konsumer]

Thanks!

[skierpage]

Have you looked at libdoc? "a thread-safe library to extract text from microsoft doc files. It is based on catdoc sources"