Open Document Text Parser

The Open Document Text Parser processes OpenDocument Text documents, usually with the .odt file extension. It creates a paginated representation for rendering. i-net PDFC can use this representation when processing ODT documents. The i-net Clear Reports integration provides a multi-page document decoder. When the Drive integration is available, the parser also extracts searchable text and document metadata and can create a page preview.

The parser handles OpenDocument text documents only. OpenDocument spreadsheets and presentations are not decoded by this plugin.

The parser reads document content and style information and lays it out as pages. The following feature groups are handled:

• Page dimensions, orientation, margins, borders, background, and columns
• Page and section breaks, master pages, headers, and footers
• Page-number and page-count fields

• Paragraphs, headings, text spans, and hyperlinks
• Common paragraph and character formatting, including font name and size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, color, and subscript or superscript
• Bulleted and numbered lists, including nested lists

• Table rows and cells, cell text and styles, borders, and merged cells

• Embedded images, common geometric shapes, lines, and grouped drawings
• Basic text frames, drawing position and size, rotation, and text wrapping

• Title, author, keywords, creation and modification dates, and document producer

The parser does not implement every OpenDocument Text feature. Known gaps and partial support are described on the Limitations page.