Re: Ability to read MS Word files

[Supriyo Sircar <sircars@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for the earlier reply from Robert.

IS there something similar to convert from PDF to text or to HTML.

Supriyo


> From: Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au
> Reply-To: Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au
> To: adasoft <adasoft@giascl01.vsnl.net.in>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org, ssircar@adasoftware.com
> Subject: Re: Ability to read MS Word files
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:55:30 +1000 (EST)
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, adasoft wrote:
>
> > I need to read the text content in a  MS Word file on NT from outside of
> > MS-Word in a batch program to create a list of all the words contained 
> in
> > the document. Any suggestions ?
> >
> > Supriyo Sircar
>
> Assuming that the files are MSWord 8 files, try to WordToTxt script that
> is included in the mswordview package (probably not the most efficient way
> of getting there, but it works.
>
> Robert.
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> Australia
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>
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