Indexing RTF

Background

By default, MindTouch does not support the indexing of RTF documents.  To index RTFs, follow the steps below.  This assumes you are running the MindTouch virtual appliance (Debian).

Answer

Install unrtf

apt-get install unrtf

Create the following file:  /var/www/dekiwiki/bin/filters/rtf2txt

#!/bin/bash

# The converter script requires the 'unrtf' binary
# To install, run:  apt-get install unrtf

# Setting PATH
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH

# save stdin to a file since unrtfp doesn't work on streams
TEMP=`mktemp`
dd of=$TEMP 2> /dev/null

unrtf --text "$TEMP"  | sed -e '/^###/d' -e 's/### invalid font number [0-9]\+//'
rm $TEMP

Make the script executable

chmod +x /var/www/dekiwiki/bin/filters/rtf2txt

Enable the indexer in /etc/dekiwik/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml

Add the following line to the <indexer> section of your startup.xml

<filter-path extension="rtf">/var/www/dekiwiki/bin/filters/rtf2txt</filter-path>

Restart the service

/etc/init.d/dekiwiki restart