Good Word doc -> plain text conversion

[bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:35:54PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> While OpenOffice is certainly not scriptable,  it certainly can read
> nearly everything that MS Word, Excel, or Power Point can produce.

OpenOffice is scriptable.  And you can run it as a headless server and feed
it input files to convert via shell scripts, python, java, etc.

Here's one howto available via Google:

http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/batch-command-line-file-conversion-with.html

-b

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