diff --git a/src/filters/rclppt b/src/filters/rclppt
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d9c5140e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/filters/rclppt
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rclppt,v 1.1 2006-09-05 09:52:23 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+#================================================================
+# rclppt
+# Handle powerpoint files for recoll.
+# Uses catppt from the catdoc utilities
+# (http://ftp.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/)
+# In my experience, this sometimes fail to extract text, printing "Default
+# Design" ou "format par defaut" instead and only.
+#
+#================================================================
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rclsoff"
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help"
+then
+ printf 'Process a powerpoint file for recoll indexation.\n'
+ printf 'Usage: %s [infile]\n' "$progname"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$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()
+{
+ cmdsok=0
+ for cmd in $*;do
+ if iscmd $cmd
+ then
+ cmdsok=1
+ else
+ cmdsok=0
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+ printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+ exit 1
+fi
+checkcmds catppt
+if test X$cmdsok = X0 ; then
+ printf "Catppt not found"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# output the result
+echo ''
+#echo '' "$title" ''
+echo ''
+echo ''
+echo ''
+
+catppt -d utf-8 "$infile" | \
+ sed -e 's/'
+echo ''
+
+# exit normally
+exit 0
diff --git a/src/filters/rclxls b/src/filters/rclxls
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..fad14606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/filters/rclxls
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rclxls,v 1.1 2006-09-05 09:52:23 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+#================================================================
+# rclppt
+# Handle excel files for recoll.
+# Uses xls2csv from the catdoc utilities
+# (http://ftp.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/)
+# Note: xls2csv is supposed to detect the source charset from the excel
+# file but this does not always work. If you see unexpected russian chars
+# (the russian author's default charset) in the output, you may want to add
+# ie a -s 8859-1 option to the xls2csv command line.
+#================================================================
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rclsoff"
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help"
+then
+ printf 'Process an excel file for recoll indexation.\n'
+ printf 'Usage: %s [infile]\n' "$progname"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$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()
+{
+ cmdsok=0
+ for cmd in $*;do
+ if iscmd $cmd
+ then
+ cmdsok=1
+ else
+ cmdsok=0
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+ printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+ exit 1
+fi
+checkcmds xls2csv
+if test X$cmdsok = X0 ; then
+ printf "xls2csv not found"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# output the result
+echo ''
+#echo '' "$title" ''
+echo ''
+echo ''
+echo ''
+
+xls2csv -c' ' -b"
" -d utf-8 "$infile" | \
+ sed -e 's/'
+echo ''
+
+# exit normally
+exit 0
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/mimeconf b/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
index 1fe0cec8..dd39b0a4 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimeconf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: mimeconf,v 1.16 2006-04-01 07:34:21 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: mimeconf,v 1.17 2006-09-05 09:52:23 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
# Recoll : associations of mime types to processing filters.
# There are different sections for decompression, 'interning' for indexing
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ application/x-bzip2 = uncompress rcluncomp bunzip2 %f %t
application/msword = exec rcldoc
application/pdf = exec rclpdf
application/postscript = exec rclps
+application/vnd.ms-powerpoint = exec rclppt
+application/vnd.ms-excel = exec rclxls
application/vnd.sun.xml.calc = exec rclsoff
application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template = exec rclsoff
application/vnd.sun.xml.draw = exec rclsoff
@@ -52,6 +54,8 @@ text/x-mail = internal
# External viewers, launched when you on a result entry 'edit' link
[view]
application/msword = openoffice %f
+application/vnd.ms-powerpoint = openoffice %f
+application/vnd.ms-excel = openoffice %f
application/pdf = xpdf %f
application/postscript = gv %f
application/vnd.sun.xml.calc = openoffice %f
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/mimemap b/src/sampleconf/mimemap
index dcb38214..f00181ca 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/mimemap
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimemap
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: mimemap,v 1.15 2006-04-01 07:34:21 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: mimemap,v 1.16 2006-09-05 09:52:23 dockes Exp $ (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
# Recoll: associations of file name extensions to mime types
.txt = text/plain
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
#.Z = application/x-compress
.doc = application/msword
+.ppt = application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
+.xls = application/vnd.ms-excel
# OpenOffice / opendocument. We handle opendocument as old openoffice files
# for now