Paul Foster wrote:
> Here's what I want to know: why hasn't someone put out an open source
> program that reads .DOC files (any version) and converts them to
> something like RTF? That way, we wouldn't need to open some huge
> program just to see what they sent us.
Here's a summary of some such apps out there:
(1)
Name: wvWare (formerly MSWordView)
Functionality: Library & sample application converts Word 8 files to HTML
Limitations: Exports only to HTML, although library should be able to do
text, TeX, and other ordinary formats
NEW URL: http://www.wvWare.com/
OLD URL: http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
(old) Redhat RPMs: ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/mswordview/
[try rpmfind for newer versions]
(2)
Name: word2x
Functionality: Converts Word files to text, HTML or LaTeX
Limitations: No OLE, may not do Word 7 and Word 8 formats (just 2-6)
URL: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
(3)
Name: catdoc
Functionality: Reads MS Word 6 and 7 files to text, with TeX-like tables
Limitations: Doesn't do Word 8 format?
URL: http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/
(4)
Name: LAOLA
Functionality: Perl programs dealing with binary file formats of Windows
program documents.
Limitations: lhalw does word 6, Word 7. Word 8 "sorta" works.
URL: http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html
N.B. --> ALL of the binary packages are available in RPM format from the
Redhat contrib tree and where specifically listed above. Trying
them out should be a 15-second affair...
-Craig
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