Monks,
I need to use Win32::OLE to extract the text from MsWord. The best solution I could find to maintain a bit of formatting is to use the SaveAs function (I would prefer to read directly into a variable, but I can leave with it). The problem is I can NOT find how to set the parameters to save the file in Unicode (something you get asked by Word after clicking on SaveAs...). I've read all I could, but could not find any substitution/completion of "wdFormatTextLineBreaks" to achieve this goal. On Microsoft specification page, they speak about "wdFormatUnicodeText" with value "7". But I can't find how to specify it in my script (just replacing "wdFormatTextLineBreaks" with "wdFormatUnicodeText" does not produce any effect). Maybe some of you know the answer.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Spec::Functions qw( catfile );
use Cwd qw(cwd);
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;
my $dir = cwd;
my $word = get_word();
$word->{Visible} = 0;
my $doc = $word->{Documents}->Open(catfile $dir, 'test.docx');
$doc->SaveAs(
catfile($dir, 'test.txt'),
wdFormatTextLineBreaks
);
$doc->Close(0);
sub get_word {
my $word;
eval {
$word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application');
};
die "$@\n" if $@;
unless(defined $word) {
$word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', sub { $_[0]->Quit
+})
or die "Oops, cannot start Word: ",
Win32::OLE->LastError, "\n";
}
return $word;
}
__END__