On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:50:43 +0200 swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi > > Thanks for a making this fantastic program! > > I think I found a bug. > > When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of binary > data instead of a table back. > > I would rather either get an error saying it is not supported yet or > an org-table. > > Recoll supports xlsx files it seems, so it should be possible > with python 3 at least to make this work also in org-mode. See > https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/features.html > > I found this in Arch: > $ pacman -Ss xlsx > community/python-openpyxl 3.0.5-1 > A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files > > Other ones written in python: > https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv (not that active) > https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit (active) > > Also gnumeric can convert it: > The Gnumeric spreadsheet application comes with a command line utility > called ssconvert that can convert between a variety of spreadsheet > formats: > > $ ssconvert Book1.xlsx newfile.csv > Unfortunately it is only available with the gnumeric GUI currently > which is ~14MB bloat. > See > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10557360/ddg#10580741 > Source here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric (active) > > Cheers > swedebugia > I also found this nice and small rust program that works well: https://github.com/zitsen/xlsx2csv.rs It is surprisingly large though: 8.7M Sep 12 16:53 .cargo/bin/xlsx2csv Which is way more than ssconvert, but on the other hand it does not require any gnome dependencies or GUI stuff: 38K Sep 5 16:21 /usr/bin/ssconvert cheers
