Extracting Graphics form *. xls

karavay has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

thanks for browsing this node in the first place... I have a challenge to solve and the primary target is to extract graphics from *.xls (Spreadsheet files with embedded graphics ).

Currently I'm able to extract the images by using a sequence of steps and use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module.

The steps are as follows:

open file->save_as_html->copy images

Could you suggest a more efficient approach to solving this dilemma?

OS: Linux :) Files were created with Calc (OpenOffice Spreadsheet)

Thanks,

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Re: Extracting Graphics form *. xls by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 29, 2008 at 15:10 UTC
You could look through OpenOffice::OODoc::Intro if that offers easier access to the charts.	[reply]
Re^2: Extracting Graphics form *. xls by karavay (Beadle) on Feb 29, 2008 at 15:21 UTC
Thanks moritz, I'll have a look at that module !	[reply]
Re^3: Extracting Graphics form *. xls by karavay (Beadle) on Feb 29, 2008 at 16:53 UTC
the only problem ( more of an inconvenience) that OpenOffice::OODoc works only with open document format spec (xml).	[reply]