Opening word file in open office

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

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Re: Opening word file in open office by afoken (Chancellor) on Jun 27, 2009 at 13:43 UTC
OpenOffice::OODoc can handle only files in the OpenOffice format. MS Word is a completely different format. OpenOffice::OODoc is not OpenOffice (which can read MS Word documents). Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: Opening word file in open office by soubalaji (Sexton) on Jun 27, 2009 at 14:03 UTC
Hi, If the OpenOffice::OODoc will not read the word files means, any other source to read the word file. Now we are moving to open source.	[reply]
Re^3: Opening word file in open office by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 27, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
See OpenOffice::UNO on how to automate OpenOffice, to read MS Word files.	[reply]
Re^3: Opening word file in open office by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 27, 2009 at 14:38 UTC
Did you post a similar question on the OpenOffice.org Forum? If so there are examples of automating Open Office using both Win32::OLE and OpenOffice::UNO (which Corion told you about in Doc to Pdf conversion), super search on this topic for similar questions and replies, such as About open office. Martin	[reply]
Re^4: Opening word file in open office by soubalaji (Sexton) on Jun 28, 2009 at 10:40 UTC
Re^4: Opening word file in open office by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2009 at 00:21 UTC
Re^5: Opening word file in open office by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2009 at 08:07 UTC
Re^3: Opening word file in open office by afoken (Chancellor) on Jun 27, 2009 at 20:46 UTC
There still is no Perl module written to read the various MS Word formats on CPAN, but OLE::Storage has an example script that extracts text from MS Word 6/7/8 files, so OLE::Storage should be able to read MS Word files, but maybe not on that high level that OpenOffice::OODoc offers. The newer OLE::Storage_Lite should also be able to read MS Word files. There is also a module that can WRITE MS Word files (Win32::Word::Writer), but it depends on OLE and an installed MS Word. Newer MS Office versions (starting at Office 2003) write ZIP-compressed XML files for at least Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. You just have to unzip the *.docx file and parse the XML file it contains, very similar to what OpenOffice::OODoc does. See also Re: Excel 2007 Support. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]