Re: Ability to read MS Word files
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, adasoft wrote:
> I need to read the text content in a MS Word file on NT from outside of
> MS-Word in a batch program to create a list of all the words contained in
> the document. Any suggestions ?
>
> Supriyo Sircar
Assuming that the files are MSWord 8 files, try to WordToTxt script that
is included in the mswordview package (probably not the most efficient way
of getting there, but it works.
Robert.
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