[Feature Request] Support Microsoft DOCX/PPTX/XLSX formats about hachoir HOT 3 CLOSED

So far we haven't considered OpenXML mostly because the fundamental format is .zip, and we don't really have an architecture to scan the metadata of container formats (same way we don't currently support metadata in contents of filesystems, for example).

I think this is part of a longer discussion on how general we want hachoir to be. Right now the entire project is geared towards binary formats (with basically the sole exception of PDF, which is a hybrid text/binary format), whereas parsing OpenXML involves basically adapting to supporting text formats too. It's not impossible but it really changes some of the architecture. @Haypo could probably comment more on this.

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I'm not sure that supporting any file format fits well into Hachoir design.

I suggest to write a new project on top of Hachoir which would try Hachoir for binary files, or use other parsers for other file formats. I'm sure that PDF, OpenXML, etc. have good Python modules. I don't want to add such dependencies to Hachoir. Hachoir is more written as a standalone library.

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Hachoir is basically unmaintained, so I prefer to be more explicit and close this feature request. http://unmaintained.tech/

If you want a feature, you have to implement it ;-)

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