Re: FN-FORUM: File conversion

date posted 24th August 2005 09:15

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:02, Richard wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility that coverts an array of differnt file
> formats to plain text?
>
> I found antiword for MS Word documents, and ideally need to find
> something similar for
>

OpenOffice itself will export from Word, HTML, RTF and (obviously)
Openoffice and can be run unattended on unix boxes. Look at the
developers kit on the OO website.

also, try POI

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

I've no experience with Works or extracting from PDF.

hope this helps,

Graham

> HTML, PDF, RTF, WRI, OpenOffice, WRK (MS Works).
>
> In an ideal world there would be a nice java application which does all
> of them :)
>
> Note; this has to run under *nix and w/out human intervention
>
> Many thanks.
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