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+FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an
+Excel (.xls) spreadsheet. FreeXL design goals:
+ * to be simple and lightweight
+ * to be stable, robust and efficient
+ * to be easily and universally portable
+ * completely ignoring any GUI-related oddity
+
+Note that the final goal means that FreeXL ignores at all fonts, sizes
+and alignments, and most formats. It ignores Pivot Table, Charts, Formulas,
+Visual Basic macros and so on. FreeXL is structurally simple and quite
+light-weight (typically 40-80K of object code, stripped).