For anyone out there who would like to index Word 2007 files here is how I have done it. It would be great if this could be included in the documentation on the front page as well as in the Autodetect Helpers section.

  1. Install docx2txt Docx2txt SourceForge Project
  2. Head to admin/settings/search_files/helpers/add
  3. Name Word 2007, Extension docx, Helper path perl /usr/local/bin/docx2txt.pl %file% -

/usr/local/bin may not be required if it is installed correctly.

And the code for Autodetect can be added to search_files_install_auto_helper_app_configuration()

    // test for word docx2txt
    $location = trim(shell_exec('which docx2txt.pl'));
    $location = preg_replace("/^no .*$/", "", $location);
    $perl_location = trim(shell_exec('which perl'));
    $perl_location = preg_replace("/^no .*$/", "", $perl_location);
    if ($location && $perl_location) {
      search_files_helper_db_add("Word 2007 files", "docx", $perl_location .' '. $location ." %file%");
      drupal_set_message(t('Helper app docx2txt has been detected and configured'));
    }
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#4 search_files_docx.patch1.04 KBmstrelan

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mstrelan’s picture

mstrelan commented

Update .. the autodetect code is missing a hypen after %file%. new code below

<?php
    // test for word docx2txt
    $location = trim(shell_exec('which docx2txt.pl'));
    $location = preg_replace("/^no .*$/", "", $location);
    $perl_location = trim(shell_exec('which perl'));
    $perl_location = preg_replace("/^no .*$/", "", $perl_location);
    if ($location && $perl_location) {
      search_files_helper_db_add("Word 2007 files", "docx", $perl_location .' '. $location ." %file% -");
      drupal_set_message(t('Helper app docx2txt has been detected and configured'));
    }
?>
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bibo commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Thanks for this, I added it to my configuration.

Setting to need review since it.. needs review :).
I don't have time to test it right away though, but this would probably be a good addition to the module.

jrglasgow’s picture

jrglasgow commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

can you please write a patch for this?

mstrelan’s picture

mstrelan commented
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new search_files_docx.patch1.04 KB

Sure. I'm having problems browsing CVS from Eclipse at the moment, it keeps hanging when I expand the modules directory. Anyway here is a patch just on my local filesystem.

mstrelan’s picture

mstrelan commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
jrglasgow’s picture

jrglasgow commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

this has been committed and will appear in the next release of 6.x-2.x and 7.x

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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babruix commented

Works great, thanks for this!
By the way, anybody know solution for xlsx2txt and pptx2txt?
i see projects: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlsx2txt/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pptx2txt/ have anybody tried them?
Probably i should test them myself..

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ken hawkins commented

Thought others might appreciate more explicit steps to get docx2txt working, perhaps this belongs in the handbook?

I'm doing this for 7.x on Ubuntu 12.04.

In terminal: 

cd /usr/local/bin/
wget http://docx2txt.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docx2txt/docx2txt/docx2txt.pl

Then in Drupal:

/admin/config/search/search_files/helpers/add
Helper name: Word 2007
Extension: docx
Helper path: perl /usr/local/bin/docx2txt.pl %file% -