Re: converting ms word files

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/11/2009 02:09 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
> > > plane text?
> > > catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting.
> > Well, sure you lose formatting going from Word to text.  Can you be more 
> > specific as to what you mean?
>
> Yep, well, I just mean like indentation, numbers, tables converted to
> tabs, etc.
> When I say numbers I mean the auto numbering word does, and for that to
> show up in plain text as 1, 2, 3 etc...
>
> Does that make sense, and possibly other things.
>
> > > antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file...
> > >
> > > What are people using, any better suggestions?
> > >
> > > I have a script here ready to go, so all I have to do is set the prog
> > > variable... I get a lot of these files unfortunately, so any suggestions
> > > would be appreciated.
> > $ abiword --to=txt some_file.doc
>
> Uh... I was hoping to avoid starting the gui...

Hmmm.  *Maybe* it would work from the console.  Two ways to find 
out, and one doesn't require that you know C... :)

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