From 5d86387e8e4ecc82aaeb16ab3c92643528740732 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Rosario Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:46:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add LibreOffice to requirements, fix wording in document visualization --- docs/intro/requirements.rst | 7 +++++++ docs/topics/document_visualization.rst | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/intro/requirements.rst b/docs/intro/requirements.rst index d51cc0d509..88e801d49e 100644 --- a/docs/intro/requirements.rst +++ b/docs/intro/requirements.rst @@ -57,3 +57,10 @@ When checking queued documents for OCR processing, **Mayan EDMS** will first try to extract text using one of the registered parsers. * ``pdftotext`` - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter + +Office document support +----------------------- +Spreadsheets, presentation, letters, all are supported if LibreOffice is +installed. + +* ``LibreOffice`` - LibreOffice Productivity Suite diff --git a/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst b/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst index 75921046b8..445554acda 100644 --- a/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst +++ b/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Document visualization ====================== -The philosophy in place is to try to avoid having users download a documents and leave -**Mayan EDMS** to be able to see them, so in essence making **Mayan EDMS** a -visualization tool too. The conversion backend is a stack of functions, +On of the design philosophies of **Mayan EDMS** is avoid having users +download a documents and leave **Mayan EDMS** to be able to see them, +so in essence making **Mayan EDMS** a visualization tool too. +The conversion backend is a stack of functions, first the mimetype is evaluated, if it is an office document it is passed to LibreOffice_ working in headless mode (and managed by supervisor_) via unoconv_ (more information about ``unoconv`` can be found in the :doc:`FAQ section <../faq/index>`)