Antiword converts to text or postscript. From your description, I can't really tell if that's good enough for you, but give it a try!

Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. There are ports to BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, EPOC and DOS. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000 and 2002 to plain text and to PostScript TM.

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