Plugins
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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)