in reply to Re: Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box
in thread Extracting text from MS Word files on a Linux box

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

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