[Gllug] Word to text

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 25 19:45:33 UTC 2001


On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, john hearns yowled:
> It is  catdoc  http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
> Basically feed it a Word doscument and it outputs
> text to standard out.

There is also `antiword', which supports many Word versions and can
preserve some of the formatting, outputting PostScript as well as text.

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Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
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