Re: API for reading M$ word documents on Linux???

[Shachar Shemesh]

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

Christoph Bugel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 

On 2003-07-06  Ron Gidron wrote:
   

Is there an API out there, ideally I would like to call it from Perl,
that can help me grep for keywords on Microsoft word documents? 
     

Maybe try 'antiword'. It's a commandline utility that reads a m$word file
as input, and creates a nice ascii text file as output.
   

Another possibility, which may be not just as nice but equally
workable for many grepping purposes, is strings(1).
 

Isn't Word Unicode? Doesn't that mean strings will be, pretty much, 
useless with it?

            Shachar

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