Re: Convert MS-Word to plain text

On Fri, 9 May 2008, backpack wrote:
Are there any perl modules that will allow you to convert MS-Word docs to plain text?

AFAIK there is no integrated Perl solution for this, but there are several Perl bridge to external software doing this, such as:

- Win32::OLE, if you happen to do this in a MS Windows system.

- OpenOffice::UNO supposedly let you control OpenOffice to do most anything, including open Word document and save it as text file or extract the text directly. I used OpenOffice UNO from Java before, not sure how much of UNO implemented in the Perl module.

- SWISH::Filters use external commant catdoc to extract the text out of MS Word documents.

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