Sun Sep 20 17:15:37 EEST 2009
Convert doc files to plain text (txt) in terminal / console (tty) on GNU / Linux
I was looking for a way to convert Microsoft .doc files to plain text (txt) in Linux directly through terminal.After some lookup in Google Groups I found ANTIWORD! .
Luckily Debian comes even with a package containing the nice nifty program.
Here is the description of antiword - Converts MS Word files to text, PS and PDF
Fun, desciprtion Eh?
Ain't
it?There are some other ways to Convert doc files to plain text, for instance you could use the command catdoc , for example to convert simple .doc to .txt file use catdoc -a whitepaper.doc.
Another way to convert .doc files to .txt mostly used by developers is via the wvware (nothing to do with vmware!:)) utility.
wvware could directly convert it to html. For example:
wvWare file.doc >file.htmlor
wvText file.doc file.txt
. A lot of things I'll skip here are well explained in the article Viewing Word files at the command line .