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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] doc to txt conversion
From:       Jim Cunning <jcunning () cunning ! ods ! org>
Date:       2006-12-23 23:56:56
Message-ID: 200612231556.56388.jcunning () cunning ! ods ! org
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On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:21, James Knott wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> > just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> > understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text
> > printer"?
> >
> > TIA
>
> Why not just save it as a text (.txt) file???

I used to use a Linux utility called 'antiword' to read MSWord .doc files and 
produce plain text that could be indexed with a utility called glimpse.  As I 
recall it did a pretty good job of preserving the formatting--as much as is 
possible with ascii text--and it certainly removed the 'glop'.

Jim Cunning
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