* Mon 2004-02-16 Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <AT> cs.nyu.edu> list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402162054400.26191 <AT> slinky.cs.nyu.edu> | On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: | | > Extract text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special | > printable characters as possible. Catdoc doesn't attempt to analyze | > Word file formatting, it just extracts readable text. Known to | > support up to Word-97 format. | > | > http://freshmeat.net/projects/catdoc/ | | Question: how is this different from 'antiword'? | Igor
catdoc is the "original". Essentially these two are the same. I ran a simple tests with these two and I looked like catdoc preserved paragraph bounds together better than antiword (which stuck lines together). Why not have both! Jari -- http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/ Swatch @time http://www.mir.com.my/iTime/itime.htm http://www.ryanthiessen.com/swatch/resources.htm Use Licenses! http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6225 Which Licence? http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4825 OSI Licences http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
