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Greenstone incorporates plugins for many different file formats, listed below. But we are always looking for more! If there is a specific plugin you would like us to write on a contractual basis then contact us. Also, we welcome contributions of code to enable us to extend Greenstone. A list of plugins we would like appears below.

Existing plugins in Greenstone v2.61

Plugin name Description
BibTexPlug.pm BibTex files
DBPlug.pm Extract records from databases (requires additional Perl setup)
DSpacePlug.pm Processes DSpace archive format
EMAILPlug.pm Saved email files (not MS OutLook format though)
ExcelPlug.pm Microsoft Excel files
FOXPlug.pm FOX database files
FavouritesPlug.pm Internet Explorer Favourites files
HTMLPlug.pm HTML files
ISISPlug.pm ISIS database files
ImagePlug.pm JPEG, GIF etc see http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html
LaTeXPlug.pm LaTeX files
MARCPlug.pm MARC metadata
METSPlug.pm Greenstone format METS files
MP3Plug.pm MP3 audio files
OAIPlug.pm Open Archives data
OggVorbisPlug.pm Ogg Vorbis Files
PagedImgPlug.pm Sequences of image files (formats as for ImagePlug), with optional associated plain text
PDFPlug.pm PDF files
PPTPlug.pm Microsoft Powerpoint
PSPlug.pm Postscript
ProCitePlug.pm ProCite files
RealMediaPlug.pm RealMedia files
ReferPlug.pm Refer files
RogPlug.pm .rog or .mdb files
SRCPlug.pm Source code (C/C++, Perl, Shell)
TEXTPlug.pm Plain text (.txt)
WordPlug.pm Microsoft Word documents
XMLPlug.pm XML files
ZIPPlug.pm Unzips tar, jar, zip, gzip and bz files and sends content down plugin pipeline

Potential New Plugins

Documents/Office formats:

  • AbiWord
  • Gnumeric Spreadsheet
  • Kword (all Koffice formats)
  • OpenOffice file formats:
    • Writer (.sxw)
    • Calc (.sxd)
    • Impress (.sxi)
    • Draw (.sxd)
  • StarOffice formats (.sdc, .sdw etc)
  • Wordperfect

Video:

  • MPEG
  • Quicktime (.mov)
  • AVI (Audio Video Interleave), Microsoft video

Audio:

  • Windows Media Audio (.wma)
  • Windows audio (.wav)
  • Sun Audio (.au)
  • Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff)
  • MIDI (.mid)
  • MIDI karoke (.kar)
  • CD Audio (.cda)
  • Shorten (.shn)

Bibliographic:

  • Endnote

Images:

  • DjVu (.djvu)
  • Photoshop (.psd)
  • PaintShopPro (.psp)

Macintosh archives:

  • .hqx Mac archive
  • .sit
  • Self extracting Archive (.sea)

Others:

  • Scalable Graphics Format (.svg)
  • Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL (.smil)
  • Macromedia Flash (.fla)
  • Macromedia shockwave (.swf)
  • OpenGL
  • VRML/X3D
  • TrueType fonts (TTF)