Thanks for the earlier reply from Robert.

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

Supriyo


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To: adasoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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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