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

Hello monks,

I need to convert a Word document into the pod format.
What is the simple and the quick way to do it?

Many thanks

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Re: Convert Word doc to pod
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 09, 2008 at 16:22 UTC
    That's not so easy, because word uses visual markup and POD uses semantic markup.

    I know of no direct converter, but perhaps you can use a word-to-html converter and then try to convert html to POD, or got the word->plain text->POD route.

    But I guess both ways are painful :(

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      Word should be able to save documents in RTF format, and it might be a little bit cleaner than MS's brand of HTML. RTF::Parser might be able to give you a few more ideas.
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