created by

Enno Nagel

script type

utility

description

This plug-in enables Vim to read text documents of type PDF, Microsoft Office such as Word (doc(x)), Excel (xls(x)) or Powerpoint (ppt(x)), LibreOffice (odt), EPUB .... To go even further, for example, among many others file formats, to read media files in Vim, add the Vimscript snippet from the Wiki https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe/wiki/vim of lesspipe.sh to your vimrc! For the text extraction, it depends on external tools, but most use cases are covered by an installation of - LibreOffice and a common text browser (such as `lynx`), and - pdftotext. It prefers, whenever available, appropriate external converters such as pandoc, odt2txt, docx2txt.pl, pptx2md, ... to do so, but will fall back to: - Either LibreOffice which is an office suite that can handle all those formats   listed above, except PDFs. (To use it on Microsoft Windows, ensure after its   installation that its path is added to the %PATH% environment variable,   say by Rapidee.) - Or Tika which is a content extractor that can handle all those formats listed   above and many more. To use it:   1. Download the latest runnable tika-app-...jar from      https://tika.apache.org/download.html to ~/bin/tika.jar (on Linux)      respectively %USERPROFILE%\bin (on Microsoft Windows).   2. Create       - on Linux, a shell script ~/bin/tika that reads           #!/bin/sh           exec java -jar "$HOME/bin/tika.jar" "$@" 2>/dev/null       and mark it executable (by chmod a+x ~/bin/tika).       - on Microsoft Windows, a batch script %USERPROFILE%\bin\tika.bat that         reads           @echo off           java -jar "%USERPROFILE%\bin\tika.jar" %*   3. Add the folder of the newly created tika executable to your environment      variable $PATH (on Linux) respectively %PATH% (on Microsoft Windows):       - on Linux, if you use bash or zsh by adding to ~/.profile or ~/.zshenv         the line           PATH=$PATH:~/bin       - on Microsoft Windows, a convenient program to update %PATH% is         Rapidee. # Issues vim-office is developed at https://github.com/Konfekt/vim-office where issues can be filed.

install details

Unzip vim-office.zip into  ~/.vim on Linux respectively MacOS or %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles on Windows.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
vim-office.zip	1.5	2024-03-15	7.0	Enno Nagel	improve excel and powerpoint handling
vim-office.zip	1.4	2023-02-17	7.0	Enno Nagel	possible recognize text in images with tesseract
vim-office.zip	1.3	2021-12-19	7.0	Enno Nagel	improve Powerpoint, spreadsheet and Microsoft Windows support
vim-office.zip	1.2	2021-05-03	7.0	Enno Nagel	add open document and other file formats; fix bugs
vim-office.zip	1.1	2020-04-27	7.4	Enno Nagel	make MS Windows compatible and add additional converters
vim-office.zip	1.0	2019-07-10	7.0	Enno Nagel	Initial upload

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