* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files?
@ Martin McCormick
` Daniel Dalton
` Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Jude DaShiell
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Martin McCormick @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion
Daniel Dalton writes:
> unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of
> the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before,
> so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current
> with microsofts new formats!
Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My
primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am
not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime
files with mplayer, it just barely can keep up. I'd hate to buy
commercial software and then find out it can't pull the wagon.
I do have an Apple Macintosh in my office and this is
probably a better route to go as the Mac runs a fairly good
desktop with speech and unoconv for the Mac does exist.
Until you answered this post, I didn't know about
unoconv so I certainly appreciate the information.
For anyone who is wondering, Linux and FreeBSD Unix are
my operating systems of choice when doing programming and
work-related things. The Mac is extremely good and the fact that
it is Unix-based gives it a nice comfortable feel. The speech is
excellent but if you ever listen to the output of a log file or
a C compiler, you will sorely miss the ability to just listen to
the streaming input at times. If not for that, one could buy the
cheapest Mac made and just use it as a speech synthesizer for
anything else. I think some of the least expensive MAC's cost
about the same as some of the better-quality stand-alone
synthesizers of a few years ago.
Again, thanks for the information.
Martin McCormick
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Martin McCormick @ ` Daniel Dalton ` Lars Bjørndal ` Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Jude DaShiell 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Daniel Dalton @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3096 bytes --] On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Daniel Dalton writes: > > unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of > > the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, > > so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current > > with microsofts new formats! > > Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My > primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am > not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime No. The software is free and gnome doesn't have to be running to use it! Here is the output of aptitude show unoconv (including dependencies, doesn't look too bad): Package: unoconv New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.3-3 Priority: extra Section: text Maintainer: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> Uncompressed Size: 66.6k Depends: python, python-uno Conflicts: odt2txt (<= 0.3-1) Description: converter between OpenOffice.org document formats This package provides a commandline utility which can convert from any document format that OpenOffice can import to any document format it can export. It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. Supported document formats include Open Document format, MS Word, MS Office Open/MS OOXML, PDF, HTML, XHTML, RTF, Docbook, and more. Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ > files with mplayer, it just barely can keep up. I'd hate to buy > commercial software and then find out it can't pull the wagon. Uh, where did you get the idea it's "comercial" software? > > I do have an Apple Macintosh in my office and this is > probably a better route to go as the Mac runs a fairly good > desktop with speech and unoconv for the Mac does exist. Good, and a free version for linux exists, see above! > > Until you answered this post, I didn't know about > unoconv so I certainly appreciate the information. No I didn't either until I asked about this some months ago on debian-user, the abiword solution also seems to work well, again not requiring a gui, not sure what dependencies it pulls though. > > For anyone who is wondering, Linux and FreeBSD Unix are > my operating systems of choice when doing programming and > work-related things. The Mac is extremely good and the fact that > it is Unix-based gives it a nice comfortable feel. The speech is > excellent but if you ever listen to the output of a log file or > a C compiler, you will sorely miss the ability to just listen to > the streaming input at times. If not for that, one could buy the > cheapest Mac made and just use it as a speech synthesizer for > anything else. I think some of the least expensive MAC's cost > about the same as some of the better-quality stand-alone > synthesizers of a few years ago. I use linux for everything, braille with espeak, and have not had any problems. > > Again, thanks for the information. No worries Good luck, Daniel. [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? ` Daniel Dalton @ ` Lars Bjørndal ` Geoff Shang ` daisy reader for downloaded NLS books Rudy Vener 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Lars Bjørndal @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: >> Daniel Dalton writes: >> > unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of >> > the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, >> > so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current >> > with microsofts new formats! >> >> Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My >> primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am >> not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime > > No. The software is free and gnome doesn't have to be running to use it! > Here is the output of aptitude show unoconv (including dependencies, > doesn't look too bad): > > Package: unoconv > New: yes > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 0.3-3 > Priority: extra > Section: text > Maintainer: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> > Uncompressed Size: 66.6k > Depends: python, python-uno > Conflicts: odt2txt (<= 0.3-1) > Description: converter between OpenOffice.org document formats > This package provides a commandline utility which can convert from any document > format that OpenOffice can import to any document format it can export. It uses > OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. > > Supported document formats include Open Document format, MS Word, MS Office > Open/MS OOXML, PDF, HTML, XHTML, RTF, Docbook, and more. > Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ ... I just tried to install unoconv on my machine, which does not have any GNOME. Every time I run unoconv, I get the following oerror: unoconv: UnoException during conversion: URL seems to be an unsupported one. The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. The installed packages that I think makes sense here, is: openoffice.org-pyuno-2.4.2-18.3.fc9.i386 unoconv-0.3-2.rf.noarch openoffice.org-pyuno-2.4.2-18.3.fc9.i386 openoffice.org-base-2.4.2-18.3.fc9.i386 openoffice.org-headless-2.4.2-18.3.fc9.i386 openoffice.org-core-2.4.2-18.3.fc9.i386 My purpose right now, was to extract an logo (an image) from a doc file. Not sure if this is supported by unoconv. After installing openoffice.org-base, I was able to do unoconv --show, it gives a huge list of formats. Still I get this error message mentioned above. Lars ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? ` Lars Bjørndal @ ` Geoff Shang ` daisy reader for downloaded NLS books Rudy Vener 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion [-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 277 bytes --] On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > My purpose right now, was to extract an logo (an image) from a doc > file. Not sure if this is supported by unoconv. If it's a straight .doc file, I think wv does this automatically if converting to text or HTML. Geoff. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* daisy reader for downloaded NLS books ` Lars Bjørndal ` Geoff Shang @ ` Rudy Vener ` David Poehlman 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Rudy Vener @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion Has anyone had any success installing a Daisy reader on Linux which can play downloaded NLS books? If so, can you share your experience? Thanks, Rudy -- Rudy Vener, Owner and founder Pizza Galaxy Phone: (203) 230-9662 Website: http://www.pizzagalaxy.com Restaurant owners, our online ordering and Internet marketing brings new customers to your shop and keeps them coming back. Get our free report: The Top 7 Ways for Restaurants to get Customers Online. Go to http://www.pizzagalaxy.com/top7ways.html to get your free copy. see for yourself how customers hear about restaurant online ordering by following us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pizzagalaxy ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: daisy reader for downloaded NLS books ` daisy reader for downloaded NLS books Rudy Vener @ ` David Poehlman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: David Poehlman @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion I'm not sure what this reader is but I'm told that there is no reader for the pc for nls books in any form. On May 23, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Rudy Vener wrote: Has anyone had any success installing a Daisy reader on Linux which can play downloaded NLS books? If so, can you share your experience? Thanks, Rudy -- Rudy Vener, Owner and founder Pizza Galaxy Phone: (203) 230-9662 Website: http://www.pizzagalaxy.com Restaurant owners, our online ordering and Internet marketing brings new customers to your shop and keeps them coming back. Get our free report: The Top 7 Ways for Restaurants to get Customers Online. Go to http://www.pizzagalaxy.com/top7ways.html to get your free copy. see for yourself how customers hear about restaurant online ordering by following us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pizzagalaxy _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Martin McCormick ` Daniel Dalton @ ` Jude DaShiell ` Willem van der Walt 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Jude DaShiell @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion openoffice is accessible on the mac, at least version 3.x is needed and for intel system you want the aqua edition from openoffice.org as well.On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: > Daniel Dalton writes: >> unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of >> the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, >> so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current >> with microsofts new formats! > > Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My > primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am > not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime > files with mplayer, it just barely can keep up. I'd hate to buy > commercial software and then find out it can't pull the wagon. > > I do have an Apple Macintosh in my office and this is > probably a better route to go as the Mac runs a fairly good > desktop with speech and unoconv for the Mac does exist. > > Until you answered this post, I didn't know about > unoconv so I certainly appreciate the information. > > For anyone who is wondering, Linux and FreeBSD Unix are > my operating systems of choice when doing programming and > work-related things. The Mac is extremely good and the fact that > it is Unix-based gives it a nice comfortable feel. The speech is > excellent but if you ever listen to the output of a log file or > a C compiler, you will sorely miss the ability to just listen to > the streaming input at times. If not for that, one could buy the > cheapest Mac made and just use it as a speech synthesizer for > anything else. I think some of the least expensive MAC's cost > about the same as some of the better-quality stand-alone > synthesizers of a few years ago. > > Again, thanks for the information. > > Martin McCormick > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? ` Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Jude DaShiell @ ` Willem van der Walt ` Fredrik Larsson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Willem van der Walt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion Unoconv is free. When I had to read a .dox file, I unzipped it and it created a directory with xml files inside. You can then use whatever you have got to just strip out the xml tags and kind of get to the content, but this is not a good way. Regards, Willem On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote: > openoffice is accessible on the mac, at least version 3.x is needed and for > intel system you want the aqua edition from openoffice.org as well.On Tue, 14 > Apr 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > Daniel Dalton writes: > > > unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of > > > the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, > > > so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current > > > with microsofts new formats! > > > > Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My > > primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am > > not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime > > files with mplayer, it just barely can keep up. I'd hate to buy > > commercial software and then find out it can't pull the wagon. > > > > I do have an Apple Macintosh in my office and this is > > probably a better route to go as the Mac runs a fairly good > > desktop with speech and unoconv for the Mac does exist. > > > > Until you answered this post, I didn't know about > > unoconv so I certainly appreciate the information. > > > > For anyone who is wondering, Linux and FreeBSD Unix are > > my operating systems of choice when doing programming and > > work-related things. The Mac is extremely good and the fact that > > it is Unix-based gives it a nice comfortable feel. The speech is > > excellent but if you ever listen to the output of a log file or > > a C compiler, you will sorely miss the ability to just listen to > > the streaming input at times. If not for that, one could buy the > > cheapest Mac made and just use it as a speech synthesizer for > > anything else. I think some of the least expensive MAC's cost > > about the same as some of the better-quality stand-alone > > synthesizers of a few years ago. > > > > Again, thanks for the information. > > > > Martin McCormick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? ` Willem van der Walt @ ` Fredrik Larsson 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Fredrik Larsson @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion Hi, I use docx2txt and thinks it works fine. You find it at http://docx2txt.sf.net Fredrik On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Willem van der Walt wrote: > Unoconv is free. > When I had to read a .dox file, I unzipped it and it created a directory > with xml files inside. > You can then use whatever you have got to just strip out the xml tags and > kind of get to the content, but this is not a good way. > Regards, Willem > > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> openoffice is accessible on the mac, at least version 3.x is needed and for >> intel system you want the aqua edition from openoffice.org as well.On Tue, 14 >> Apr 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: >> >>> Daniel Dalton writes: >>>> unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of >>>> the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, >>>> so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current >>>> with microsofts new formats! >>> >>> Do you have to run an X desktop like gnome and buy unoconv? My >>> primary linux system is great in the command line world but I am >>> not sure it can handle the extra load. When playing quicktime >>> files with mplayer, it just barely can keep up. I'd hate to buy >>> commercial software and then find out it can't pull the wagon. >>> >>> I do have an Apple Macintosh in my office and this is >>> probably a better route to go as the Mac runs a fairly good >>> desktop with speech and unoconv for the Mac does exist. >>> >>> Until you answered this post, I didn't know about >>> unoconv so I certainly appreciate the information. >>> >>> For anyone who is wondering, Linux and FreeBSD Unix are >>> my operating systems of choice when doing programming and >>> work-related things. The Mac is extremely good and the fact that >>> it is Unix-based gives it a nice comfortable feel. The speech is >>> excellent but if you ever listen to the output of a log file or >>> a C compiler, you will sorely miss the ability to just listen to >>> the streaming input at times. If not for that, one could buy the >>> cheapest Mac made and just use it as a speech synthesizer for >>> anything else. I think some of the least expensive MAC's cost >>> about the same as some of the better-quality stand-alone >>> synthesizers of a few years ago. >>> >>> Again, thanks for the information. >>> >>> Martin McCormick >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Blinux-list mailing list >>> Blinux-list@redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, > and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? @ Martin McCormick ` Daniel Dalton ` Daniel Dalton 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Martin McCormick @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux for blind general discussion Is there any Unix program that will turn the new Microsoft Office .docx files in to ASCII, html or anything we can then turn in to something readible? Microsoft's new version of Office seems to love to put an extra X at the end of all their output files and that pretty well describes what the new formats do to applications like catdocs and xlhtml which have worked fairly well for several years. Thanks for any constructive suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Martin McCormick @ ` Daniel Dalton ` Daniel Dalton 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Daniel Dalton @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1029 bytes --] So what exactly is the output of: catdoc <file. or antiword <file>? Someone also mentioned to me a converter using oo libs, ill see if I can dig the mail up sometime... On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:18:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any Unix program that will turn the new > Microsoft Office .docx files in to ASCII, html or anything we > can then turn in to something readible? > > Microsoft's new version of Office seems to love to put an extra > X at the end of all their output files and that pretty well > describes what the new formats do to applications like catdocs > and xlhtml which have worked fairly well for several years. > > Thanks for any constructive suggestions. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Is there Anything Like Catdocs for reading .docx files? Martin McCormick ` Daniel Dalton @ ` Daniel Dalton 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Daniel Dalton @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1933 bytes --] Hi Martin, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:18:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any Unix program that will turn the new > Microsoft Office .docx files in to ASCII, html or anything we > can then turn in to something readible? Sorry I had to go out today, but there are perhaps a couple of solutions (untested with dox): unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current with microsofts new formats! One thing I couldn't do is dump to text, but the following hack should work ok, (untested of course): #!/bin/sh # convert files to txt! unoconv -f html "$1" && # perhaps some checks for args above could be handy lynx -dump "$1" > "$1".txt Uh and you'll have to use the basename package in there I just forgot about that to strip the extentions, go read man basename I think you want. Next option: DISPLAY= abiword -t txt <word.doc> gd luck, let me know if something doesn't work coz half this is just cut and pasted from old archived mails I didn't get around to testing, coz all this stuff works from scripts I have written which shall be updated to use unoconv now I think! -- Daniel Dalton > > Microsoft's new version of Office seems to love to put an extra > X at the end of all their output files and that pretty well > describes what the new formats do to applications like catdocs > and xlhtml which have worked fairly well for several years. > > Thanks for any constructive suggestions. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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