Re: Word to text translation

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:56:14 -0700 (PDT), kenoli wrote:

Does anyone know a class or other script for translating the contents
of a MSWord document into a text file with simple formatting, e.g.
paragraph breaks, not totally mangling lists, etc. so it can be stored
in a text field in a mysql database.

I believe HTML Tidy can do good things with Word docs, although I have
never tried using it for that myself. (I have cleaned Word docs *by hand*,
however, and I can say that software that can do it is something valuable.)

Go to http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/#word2000 and nose around a
little. See if it does (or can be made to do) what you need.

--
John
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