On Oct 19, 10:40 am, Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajki...@gmail.com> wrote: > apt-get install odt2txt (lenny or sid) Thanks. I'm on Etch. But, yes, I found a great script in the Python Cookbook 2nd edition pg. 101 Recipe 2.26 "Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents. rpd