Have you done any research on this? Either spend time looking at how to drive this via Win32::OLE, or simply use it to save a copy of each document in htm/html format which will generate a folder named WordFileName_files containing the embeded images.

Martin

marto ++
Save as a html document is a simple way.

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Late with this answer. Maybe someone else can profit..

you do not need imagemagick.M

see : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555171

use strict;
# import OLE
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;   # report OLE runtime errors
sub Win32_FullPath;


if ( $#ARGV == -1 ) {
    print "Specify a msword file as first commandline argument. Full p
+ath to the file is needed\n";
    exit;
}

# specify variables
my  $filename = $ARGV[0];
chomp $filename;
$filename = Win32_FullPath( $filename ) ;
my ( $basename ) = $filename;
$basename =~ s/\.doc$/_files/;

if ( ! -f $filename ) {
        print "Could not find file : $filename\n"; 
        exit;
}



# instantiate Word - use the Word application if it's open, otherwise 
+open new
print "Starting word\n";
my $Word = "";
$Word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application',  sub {$_[0]->Quit;} ) || di
+e "MsWord is not installed\n";  # get already active msword

#print ref $Word ,"\n";    
if ( ref $Word ne 'Win32::OLE' ) {
    print "Cound not open word\n";
    exit;
}    
    
$Word->{Visible}= 0; # we don't need to see Word in an active window

# open the specified Word doc
print "Opening $filename\n";
$Word->Documents->Open( $filename )
    or die("Unable to open document ", Win32::OLE->LastError());

my $savenameHTML = "";
( $savenameHTML = $filename) =~ s/\.doc$/\.html/;
$Word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs({
    FileName    =>    $savenameHTML,
    FileFormat    =>    wdFormatHTML});


# close document 
print "Closing document and Word\n";
$Word->ActiveDocument->Close();
print "Pictures are in directory : \"$basename\"\n";
exit;


sub Win32_FullPath ($) {
# This sub will return the appropiate WINDOWS file name ( e.g. / will 
+be \
    # c:/hoge/hoge.xls -> c:\hoge\hoge.xls
    my $file = shift;
    if ($] ge 5.006) {
    $file = Win32::GetFullPathName($file);
    }
    $file =~ s|/|\\|g;
    print "SUB win32::FullPath : $file\n";
    return "$file";
}
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