Re: (Zigster) MSWORD TO TEXT

I use the UNIX command 'strings' it works fine and dandy with most word docs I have come across. The op is a little ruff but in most cases I can read the document. It all depends how clean you want the output.
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Zigster

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Re: Re: (Zigster) MSWORD TO TEXT by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on Apr 12, 2001 at 22:50 UTC
Zigster, All I can say about strings is WOW! That works perfectly on Word 2k, WordPerfect 8, and Excel 2k files. Combined with pdftotext you have a nearly complete solution for extracting text from common user docs, which I'm doing for a search engine for a web-based document management site. Just goes to show that if there's something you want to do on Unix/Linux, chances are the tool is already sitting on your hard drive.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: (Zigster) MSWORD TO TEXT by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 17, 2001 at 13:08 UTC
Glad to know it worked for you, I would be very interested in seeing the result when you have completed it. As a full on UNIX head working in a MS world a complete toolset for converting MS docs to ASCII would be of great interest to me. Please msg me when/if you complete the tools. Cheers -- Zigster	[reply]