Re: converting ms word files

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:22:44PM +1100, 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.
> antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file...
> 
> What are people using, any better suggestions?

Daniel,

Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between
all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes. 

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=168329

Requires an openoffice installation.

I have not tested it myself. 

Joel

> 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.
> 
> 
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