Hi Monks
I have about 30 word documents that I need to parse, and would like to transform them to text. I know the best solution is to use Win32::OLE but since I am working in Unix this is a bit of a problem. Thre are solutions but for now I am looking for other directions.
What I really need is a super simple Perl module that gets text from word documents and dumps it in a string. I tried using Text::Extract::Word but it only worked on one doc out of 5.
So, any ideas?

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes

P.S: I need this solution primarily for doc and not docx documents

UPDATE: Installed the latest version of Text::Extract::Word (it appears that I was working with the legacy code for some reason). It now works! Thanks for all your help
Guy

In reply to Converting doc to txt without WIN32::OLE by mrguy123

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