Jakarta POI is an Apache Software Foundation project for reading OLE2 Compound Documents from Java - that's Microsoft Office documents to you and me.
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Terrier uses POI to parse Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. See the classes uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.(MSWordDocument,MSExcelDocument,MSPowerpointDocument)