Hi Peter, You can try catdoc instead of strings, you will get a nicer output. catdoc will try to recognise tables and give some format.
unoconv seems to be a good option to convert doc[x] documents to some other format, but I think you will need more than 1 GB after installation since it pulls a lot of packages. How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install OOo libraries and convert the document to other format? Rodolfo Martínez On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Peter Chubb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't > just ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or > something. > > Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and > convert to LaTeX or something sensible. /usr/bin/strings doesa a reasonable > job where formatting isn't important. > > Sometimes however, I get sent documents (usually full of tables) that > purport to be in portrait orientation, but are actually Landscape --- > wvMime (and abiWord on my one box with Gnome on it) attempt to display > the doc on a portrait oriented a4 page, with all the text truncated at > the right margin. > > How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an easy > way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or other > heavyweight GUI tools)? > -- > Dr Peter Chubb www.nicta.com.au peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia > From Imagination to Impact Imagining the (ICT) Future > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
