From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:40:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200913094003.69fa761c@parabola> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200912135043.0354bac4@parabola>
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:50:43 +0200
swedebugia <swedebugia@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-13 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-12 11:50 Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files swedebugia
2020-09-13 7:40 ` swedebugia [this message]
2020-09-13 8:13 ` swedebugia
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Bastien
2020-09-14 6:27 ` swedebugia
2020-09-14 12:39 ` Bastien
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