[Typo3] The right extension for listing office documents?

[Diederik van Veen]

what would be the right extension for listing office documents, like .doc, 
.xsl and .pdf files. And have additional info visible, such as author, 
content, ect..). What would be perfect if users could just upload a file to 
a directory and the file is immediatedly listed and categorised, without the 
need to add extra info thru the BE. I'd like to implement tis as a 
(searcheable) structure for our scientic works.

What in your exerience and what do you think is the right extension to use?

I've found these ones in the TER:

- Document Directorys: but that still seems a bit 'beta' if one might say 
that. And it requires the use and login of the BE, which is not very 
convenient for our FE users. And apart from that it doesn't seem that vwware 
is properly supported by a windows server. Pro is it can read META info.

- General Office Displayer: Which works fine, but it requires that saving of 
the document in a XML format. And does not support pdf.

- Documents Suite: Provides a frontend plugin for displaying office 
documents (haven't tried this one)

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