Good Word doc -> plain text conversion

[ijstokes-/2FeUQLD3jedFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz at public.gmane.org (Ian Stokes-Rees)]

On 9/20/10 12:01 AM, jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> | antiword is the usual candidate. Every one of Google's first ten
> | results for that are relevant.
>
> Yeah, I thought of that, too, but I was hoping there might be something  that
> does  a  better  job.   In  one of my current sample .doc files, for example,
> antiword produces the curious table entry:


Use antiword and recompile it yourself with no line length limit.  I'm
sure you'll easily find some hard-coded value of 138 in there.

"antiword" is the standard and will, I suspect, support more than
anything else you find.

Ian