On 26/10/2007, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mike scott wrote: > > On 25 Oct 2007 at 11:58, Frank Cox wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:20:07 +0100 > >> "James Courtier-Dutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> How would I get openoffice to do this information abstraction bit of the > >>> task? > >> If I was you, I wouldn't. I would whip something up with C or Perl or > >> whatever to do the job directly and wouldn't try to do that with > >> OpenOffice. > >> Especially when you're going to save the result in a simple CSV file. > > > > Except his source iirc was M$ .doc files. > > > > He could use OOo to convert .doc to .txt, then use perl to munge the > > latter. The conversion can be done from the command line with suitable > > incantations. > > A quick search showed that there are some doc2txt converters available. >
I tried catdoc, but that only dumps the text from the document, not the properties of the document, like who created it, creation date etc. In MS Word these appear on the File->Properties menu. The either the "Summary" or "Custom" tags. In Open Office, Insert->Fields->Other The "Variables" tab, then select "user fields. I need to extract that information. James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
