From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 206-253-0-130.client.dsl.net ([206.253.0.130] helo=charlie.acb.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BIR6-0005JQ-00 for ; Thu, 01 May 2003 14:05:37 -0400 Received: from charlie.acb.org (charlie.acb.org [127.0.0.1]) by charlie.acb.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h41I38fj001476 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 14:03:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (ccrawford@localhost) by charlie.acb.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h41I38X2001471 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 14:03:08 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: charlie.acb.org: ccrawford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:03:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Crawford To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Converting ms-word files to text made very easy In-Reply-To: <20030501144326.GA5538@romuald.net.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hey Everyone, I was struggling with wordview which has a bunch of powerful options like making a word file into an html file, but Bill Acker told me about catdoc. Now this is the lazy man's heaven. All I did was install the rpm and use the command line argument catdoc file.doc>file.txt and press enter. Now I have the original doc file and a text (.txt) file with the name I gave it. Can life get any better? With catdoc and pdftotext I have solved two big problems that get in the way of someone trying to use a great text interface in a Windows world. 10 points for Linux and heh heh for the other guys. -- Charlie.