This is a workaround that avoids the spurious error message and warning that Zoom Search returns when attempting to index a PowerPoint 2016 .pptx file that contains only header and footer text, and an image, but no text in the body of the slide itself.
When attempting to index this file, I get the warning:
Exiftool error: Unsupported file type
and an error:
[PPT plugin error] Failed to scan [PathToMyFile].pptx (Unrecognized format).
Note that the configuration declares the scan extension .pptx. for Office 2007 files, and enables retrieval of meta information.
Although there is useful meta information in the file, apparently the absence of any text in the slide itself is blocking Zoom Search from even attempting to index the meta information.
The workaround is to add a .desc file to include meta information for the .pptx file, as described in Zoom Search Documentation:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_plugins.html
Although this works, it would be nice to have a more accurate error message, or perhaps actually carry out the indexation just with the meta information, or even just the file name, which is sufficiently precise in my case to make the search result meaningful.
When attempting to index this file, I get the warning:
Exiftool error: Unsupported file type
and an error:
[PPT plugin error] Failed to scan [PathToMyFile].pptx (Unrecognized format).
Note that the configuration declares the scan extension .pptx. for Office 2007 files, and enables retrieval of meta information.
Although there is useful meta information in the file, apparently the absence of any text in the slide itself is blocking Zoom Search from even attempting to index the meta information.
The workaround is to add a .desc file to include meta information for the .pptx file, as described in Zoom Search Documentation:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_plugins.html
Although this works, it would be nice to have a more accurate error message, or perhaps actually carry out the indexation just with the meta information, or even just the file name, which is sufficiently precise in my case to make the search result meaningful.
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