Re: How to convert .doc to txt

[Dan Anderson]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:27, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@nj.rr.BLOCK.spam.com> writes:
> 
> > launching Abiword
> > or Open Office, then exporting, unless you run console mode
> 
> aren't those packages supposed to be scriptable?
> anything scriptable can be controlled by emacs
> (presuming the scriptability is rich enough).

If you knew what you were doing you could crack open the source, make
some modifications and recompile openoffice to take command line options
like:

oofficce --convert --from ./foo.doc --to ./foo.txt

Of course, FAIK, it's already included in the code.  Check out the
documentation for OpenOffice for more details.

-Dan