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| <title>POI-HPBF - Java API To Access Microsoft Publisher Format Files</title> |
| <subtitle>Overview</subtitle> |
| <authors> |
| <person name="Nick Burch" email="nick at apache dot org"/> |
| </authors> |
| </header> |
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| <body> |
| <section> |
| <title>Overview</title> |
| |
| <p>HPBF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Visio file format.</p> |
| <p>Currently, HPBF is in an early stage, whilst we try to |
| figure out the file format. So far, we have basic text |
| extraction support, and are able to read some parts within |
| the file. Writing is not yet supported, as we are unable |
| to make sense of the Contents stream, which we think has |
| lots of offsets to other parts of the file.</p> |
| <p>Our initial aim is to provude a text extractor for the format |
| (now done), and be able to extract hyperlinks from within |
| the document (partly supported). Additional low level |
| code to process the file format may follow, if there |
| is demand and developer interest warrant it.</p> |
| <p>At this time, there is no <em>usermodel</em> api or similar. |
| There is only low level support for certain parts of |
| the file, but by no means all of it.</p> |
| <p>Our current understanding of the file format is documented |
| <link href="file-format.html">here</link>.</p> |
| <note> |
| This code currently lives the |
| <link href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/poi/trunk/src/scratchpad/">scratchpad area</link> |
| of the POI SVN repository. |
| Ensure that you have the scratchpad jar or the scratchpad |
| build area in your |
| classpath before experimenting with this code. |
| </note> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
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