Re: Convert MS-Word to plain text

In article <alpine.OSX.1.10.0805170909340.5094@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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These two also, anyone compared to "antiword"?

Thanks

David


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