On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to >> plane text? >> catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting. > > Well, sure you lose formatting going from Word to text. Can you be more > specific as to what you mean?
Yep, well, I just mean like indentation, numbers, tables converted to tabs, etc. When I say numbers I mean the auto numbering word does, and for that to show up in plain text as 1, 2, 3 etc... Does that make sense, and possibly other things. > >> antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file... >> >> What are people using, any better suggestions? >> >> I have a script here ready to go, so all I have to do is set the prog >> variable... I get a lot of these files unfortunately, so any suggestions >> would be appreciated. > > $ abiword --to=txt some_file.doc > Uh... I was hoping to avoid starting the gui... Thanks, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
