Re: Bug: org-table-import fails to import xlxs files

[swedebugia]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:50:43 +0200
swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Thanks for a making this fantastic program!
> 
> I think I found a bug.
> 
> When trying to import a xslx table into org-mode I get a lot of binary
> data instead of a table back.
> 
> I would rather either get an error saying it is not supported yet or
> an org-table.
> 
> Recoll supports xlsx files it seems, so it should be possible
> with python 3 at least to make this work also in org-mode. See
> https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/features.html
> 
> I found this in Arch:
> $ pacman -Ss xlsx
> community/python-openpyxl 3.0.5-1
>     A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files
> 
> Other ones written in python:
> https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv (not that active)
> https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit (active)
> 
> Also gnumeric can convert it:
> The Gnumeric spreadsheet application comes with a command line utility
> called ssconvert that can convert between a variety of spreadsheet
> formats:
> 
> $ ssconvert Book1.xlsx newfile.csv
> Unfortunately it is only available with the gnumeric GUI currently
> which is ~14MB bloat. 
> See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10557360/ddg#10580741
> Source here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric (active)
> 
> Cheers
> swedebugia
> 

I also found this nice and small rust program that works well:
https://github.com/zitsen/xlsx2csv.rs
It is surprisingly large though:
8.7M Sep 12 16:53 .cargo/bin/xlsx2csv
Which is way more than ssconvert, but on the other hand it does not
require any gnome dependencies or GUI stuff:
38K Sep  5 16:21 /usr/bin/ssconvert

cheers