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Commandline script for converting .doc to .txt
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toowoombalinux

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PostPosted: Thu 08 Apr 2010, 20:23    Post subject:  Commandline script for converting .doc to .txt
Subject description: If Abiword is installed		  
G'day,
Very basic script that need to be in the same directory as the .doc file. Oh and Abiword needs to be installed.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
for FILENAME in *.doc
do :
  BASEFILENAME=`basename $FILENAME .doc`
  abiword --to=$BASEFILENAME.abw $BASEFILENAME.doc
done
for FILENAME in *.abw
do :
  BASEFILENAME=`basename $FILENAME .abw`
  abiword --to=$BASEFILENAME.txt $BASEFILENAME.abw
done


For a cleaner txt file (which you may use with speech synth) I found it better to convert to .abw then convert .abw to .txt.

Hopes this helps.
Cheers
Martin
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aragon

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PostPosted: Fri 09 Apr 2010, 10:08    Post subject:  
you might want to also look at

antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/

and

docx2txt: http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/

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