It happens that users can embed PDFs and images into cells in Excel. As far as I can tell, there's no support for that in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. True? I'm on a linux system, so no chance of using OLE. Anyone know another way to extract those media files from the cells? This is the relevant part of what I have (basically from the SYNOPSIS):

my $formatter = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode->new();
my $workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse($file, $format
+ter);

foreach my $worksheet ($workbook->worksheets) {
    my ($row_min, $row_max) = $worksheet->row_range;
    my ($col_min, $col_max) = $worksheet->col_range;

    foreach my $row ($row_min .. $row_max) {
        foreach my $col ($col_min .. $col_max) {
            my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell($row, $col);
            next unless $cell;

            # this is what I imagine doing:
            if ($cell->{Type} eq 'pdf') {
                # get the PDF somehow ....
            }
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel with embedded PDF cells by ForgotPasswordAgain

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