diff --git a/src/filters/rclkwd b/src/filters/rclkwd
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..fadf0739
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/filters/rclkwd
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rclkwd,v 1.1 2007-06-08 14:01:30 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# Parts taken from Estraier:
+#================================================================
+# Estraier: a personal full-text search system
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Mikio Hirabayashi
+#================================================================
+#================================================================
+# rclkword
+# Extract text from a kword file
+#
+#================================================================
+
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rclkwd"
+filetype=kword
+
+
+
+#RECFILTCOMMONCODE
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the previous line unmodified!! Code imported from the
+# recfiltcommon file
+
+# Utility code common to all shell filters. This could be sourced at run
+# time, but it's slightly more efficient to include the code in the
+# filters at build time (with a sed script).
+
+# Describe error in a way that can be interpreted by our caller
+senderror()
+{
+    echo RECFILTERROR $*
+    # Also alert on stderr just in case
+    echo ":2:$progname::: $*" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+iscmd()
+{
+    cmd=$1
+    case $cmd in
+    */*)
+	if test -x $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;;
+    *)
+      oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs
+      for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd && return 0;done
+      return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+checkcmds()
+{
+    for cmd in $*;do
+      if iscmd $cmd 
+      then 
+        a=1
+      else 
+        senderror HELPERNOTFOUND $cmd
+      fi
+    done
+}
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" 
+then
+  echo "Convert a $filetype file to HTML text for Recoll indexing."
+  echo "Usage: $progname [infile]"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$1"
+
+# check the input file existence (may be '-' for stdin)
+if test "X$infile" != X- -a ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  senderror INPUTNOSUCHFILE "$infile"
+fi
+
+# protect access to our temp files and directories
+umask 77
+
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the following line unmodified !
+#ENDRECFILTCOMMONCODE
+
+checkcmds awk unzip gunzip tar
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# We need a temporary directory
+if test z"$RECOLL_TMPDIR" != z; then
+   ttdir=$RECOLL_TMPDIR
+elif test z"$TMPDIR" != z ; then
+   ttdir=$TMPDIR
+else
+   ttdir=/tmp
+fi
+tmpdir=$ttdir/rclkwd_tmp$$
+mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1
+mkdir $tmpdir/rclkwdtmp || exit 1
+
+cleanup()
+{
+    # Note that we're using a constant part (rclkwdtmp), that hopefully
+    # guarantees that we can't do big mistakes here.
+    rm -rf $tmpdir/rclkwdtmp
+    rmdir $tmpdir
+}
+    
+trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT INT TERM
+
+# Old kwd files are gzip/tar archibes. Newer ones are zip archives.
+if file $infile | grep -qi gzip ; then
+   # Unzip the input file and change to the unzipped directory
+   gunzip < "$infile" | (cd $tmpdir/rclkwdtmp;tar xf -)
+else
+    echo new kwd
+   # Unzip the input file and change to the unzipped directory
+   unzip -q -d $tmpdir/rclkwdtmp "$infile"
+fi
+cd $tmpdir/rclkwdtmp
+
+metafile=documentinfo.xml
+contentfile=maindoc.xml
+
+if test -f $metafile ; then
+
+  # Note: there can be newlines inside the description field, we don't want
+  # them...
+  abssedprog='/<abstract>/,/<\/abstract>/{
+s!.*<abstract>!!
+s!</abstract>.*!!
+p
+}
+'
+  abstract=`sed -n -e "$abssedprog" < $metafile | tr '\n' ' ' | \
+	sed -e '1s/<!\[CDATA\[//' -e 's/\]\]>//'`
+  subject=`sed -e "s/\"/'/" -e 's/.*<subject>\([^<]*\).*/\1/p;d' \
+	     < $metafile`
+  title=`sed -e "s/\"/'/" -e 's/.*<title>\([^<]*\).*/\1/p;d' \
+	     < $metafile | tr '\n' ' '`
+  keywords=`sed -e "s/\"/'/" -e 's/.*<keyword>\([^<]*\).*/\1/p;d' \
+	      < $metafile`
+fi
+
+# Note: next expr inserts a newline at each end of paragraph (for preview)
+content="`sed -e 's!</TEXT>!\\
+!g' -e 's/<[^>]*>/ /g' < $contentfile | sed -e '/^[ 	]*$/d'`"
+
+#echo abstract "$abstract"
+#echo subject "$subject"
+#echo title "$title"
+#echo keywords "$keywords"
+#echo content "$content"
+
+# output the result
+echo '<html><head>'
+echo '<title>' "$title" '</title>'
+echo '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">'
+echo '<meta name="abstract" content="' "$abstract $subject" '">'
+echo '<meta name="keywords" content="' "$keywords" '">'
+echo '</head><body><p>'
+
+# The strange 'BEGIN' setup is to prevent 'file' from thinking this file
+# is an awk program
+echo "$content" | sed -e "s/&apos;/'/g" -e 's/&quot;/"/g' |\
+awk 'BEGIN'\
+' {
+  cont = ""
+}
+{
+    $0 = cont $0
+    cont = ""
+
+    if ($0 ~ /[­-]$/) {
+      # Note : soft-hyphen is iso8859 0xad
+      # Break at last whitespace
+      match($0, "[ \t][^ \t]+$")
+      line = substr($0, 0, RSTART)
+      cont = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH-1)
+      $0 = line
+    }
+
+    if($0 == "\f") {
+        print "</p>\n<hr>\n<p>"
+        next
+    } 
+
+    print $0 "<br>"
+}
+END {
+    printf("</p></body></html>\n");
+}' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -c -s 
+
+cd /
+# exit normally
+exit 0
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/mimeview b/src/sampleconf/mimeview
index 71eab445..593c2c7d 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/mimeview
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimeview
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: mimeview,v 1.4 2007-02-14 10:10:43 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: mimeview,v 1.5 2007-06-08 13:59:55 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 ## ##########################################
 # External viewers, launched by the recoll GUI when you click on a result
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 # Pseudo entry used if the 'use desktop' preference is set in the GUI
 application/x-all = xdg-open %f
 
+application/x-kword = kword %f
+
 application/msword = openoffice %f
 application/pdf  = xpdf %f
 application/postscript = gv %f