Re: extracting pics from word files

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:33:53 +0200
Roman Joost <romanjoost@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:25:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > Yes it does. Have you *tried* it? I see how to *import* a graphic
> > but I don't see how to *export* a graphic. Are you guessing or do
> > you have actual knowledge? Specifics would be helpful.
> > 
> > Turns out that abiword will do the job.
> >
> I exported the hole document as HTML and take the image from the
> exported grafics folder. A painfull way to get the image, but it works
> ;)

Maybe not any easier but read it with OpenOffice, save it in OO format (.sxw), unzip that file (OO file format is zipped XML) and the images will be in a directory.

Paul Scott