Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
Is there any way to read the text(content) of microsoft word document without using OLE automation (WIN32::OLE).
is there any work around?
Thanks,
Swaroop

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Re: READ MS-WORD DOCUMENT
by bgreenlee (Friar) on Aug 06, 2004 at 07:33 UTC

    I'm not sure if there is a perl module that does it w/o OLE, but a bit of googling finds some converters that you could use:

    - Antiword
    - word2x

    Brad

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