converting files to text

[Victor Tsaran]

Chuck, there are several such utilities. I annot remember the name because I
am at work, just it escapes my mind. Go to freshmeat.net and search either for
"word" or "ms-word", that is how I found these programs.
Best,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net>
To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:32 AM
Subject: converting files to text


| I recently discovered the utility "ps2ascii" which extracts text from
| postscript files and also from pdf files. Now what I wish I could discover
| is a similar utility to deal with MS Word files. I am curious to know what
| some of you "Linux Only" users do when you get files attached as MSWord
| documents?
| Chuck
|
|
| My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
| "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."
|
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