Re: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box

The following works for me with LibreOffice 5.1:

use IPC::System::Simple qw/capturex/;
my $text = capturex('libreoffice',
    '--convert-to', 'txt:Text (encoded):UTF8',
    $filename, '--cat', '--headless');
utf8::decode($text);
$text=~s/\A\x{FEFF}//;  # remove BOM
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Re^2: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jun 21, 2018 at 11:50 UTC
Thank you very much haukex for your suggestion, I'll try it, but I suspect that this might very well work with recent `.docx` files (which have a format very similar to the open office format), but probably not with the old proprietary binary format associated with MS Office of 2003 and before. I'll give a try anyway.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 21, 2018 at 11:57 UTC
I tested with an older format `.doc` file (not `.docx`), and AFAIK LibreOffice supports both the older and newer formats.	[reply] [d/l] [select]