Some googling turned up this by Util. ++ to him. This is a cut down version that could get you started. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Enum;

my $word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application');
my $document = $word->ActiveDocument;

my $paragraphs = $document->Paragraphs();
my $enumerate = Win32::OLE::Enum->new($paragraphs);

while( my $paragraph = $enumerate->Next()) {
    my $style = $paragraph->{Style}->{NameLocal};
    my $text = $paragraph->{Range}->{Text};
    $text =~ tr{\n\r}{}d;
    $text =~ tr{\x0b}{\n};
    printf qq{%s -> ***%s***\n}, $style, $text;
}

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It assumes a document is open in Word. My simple document parsed as 
Heading 1 -> ***Heading 1 text***
Heading 2 -> ***Heading 2 text***
Normal -> ***Normal***

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For producing HTML I would consider something like HTML::Element.

In reply to Re: conversion from doc to html by wfsp
in thread conversion from doc to html by srocks

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