HI All,
Just noticed that it might have been confusing to use the "---begin script---"
line to separate off the AppleScript for batch converting rtf and doc files to
text. There are only five lines to the AppleScript code. And I probably
should have added some comment lines to the beginning.
Esther (Commented AppleScript below -- comments take up more lines than the
code does!)
(* Convert doc and rtf files to text using the textutil convert option
Written for Sarah on the mac-access list.
Usage: Run the script and select the folder containing your file in the dialog
window. The program will create text versions of these files in that folder
with the same name and .txt extension.
July 15, 2012 Esther
*)
set sourceFolder to choose folder
tell application "Finder" to set theFiles to files of sourceFolder whose name
extension is in {"doc", "docx", "rtf"} or creator type is "MSWD"
repeat with oneFile in theFiles
do shell script "textutil -convert txt " & quoted form of POSIX path of
(oneFile as text)
end repeat
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