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

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Re^2: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box by afoken (Chancellor) on Jun 21, 2018 at 20:18 UTC
Have you tried strings? Always used to do the trick before the MS format changed. `docx` is just a bunch of zipped XML files and some misc files. strings will fail due to ZIP, but once unpacked, strings will happily dig through the XML files. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jun 21, 2018 at 11:55 UTC
I just did not think about it. That's a very good idea, I'll try it. I don't know how it works under the hood, but I know that the Linux `grep` command is able to find strings in a MS word file, so, if it works similarly, the Linux `string` command might be all I need. Thanks hippo.	[reply] [d/l] [select]