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From: dave on 3 Aug 2006 05:03
Hi everyone,

Is it possible to convert MS Word .doc files to ascii plain text files
using something basic tools available in a standard linux distro.
Basically i want to be able to let people do this using a webpage, and
my ISP does not have catdoc installed.

Thanks
Dave.

From: Ed Morton on 3 Aug 2006 09:25
dave wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is it possible to convert MS Word .doc files to ascii plain text files
> using something basic tools available in a standard linux distro.
> Basically i want to be able to let people do this using a webpage, and
> my ISP does not have catdoc installed.
>
> Thanks
> Dave.
>

I've no idea if it's in a standar linux distro but antiword does that
and is available for linux. See http://www.winfield.demon.nl/

Ed.
From: news.t-online.de on 3 Aug 2006 13:19
dave wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is it possible to convert MS Word .doc files to ascii plain text files
> using something basic tools available in a standard linux distro.
> Basically i want to be able to let people do this using a webpage, and
> my ISP does not have catdoc installed.
>
> Thanks
> Dave.
>
Try the strings command and haev a look at the output.

strings word.doc >word.txt
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