From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B2D10A8A for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M9zoe-0002Iw-KK for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Received: from ppp118-208-254-33.lns10.mel6.internode.on.net ([118.208.254.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Received: from jason by ppp118-208-254-33.lns10.mel6.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Jason White Subject: Re: accessing .docx documents Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20090526143814.GA19575@rx.localhost> <20090526150536.GA28352@csy.ca> <20090526153447.XFMF23066.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-208-254-33.lns10.mel6.internode.on.net X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: jason@jdc.jasonjgw.net (Jason White) Sender: news X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:00:01 -0000 Chris Brannon wrote: >There is a tool called unoconv. It will handle any file format that >OpenOffice can open or produce. I think .docx is in the list of supported >formats. It should be possible to convert these to plain text or html. There is even a Debian package for it. I haven't installed or tested it, however. Package: unoconv New: yes State: not installed Version: 0.3-5 Priority: extra Section: text Maintainer: Vincent Bernat Uncompressed Size: 102k Depends: python, python-uno Recommends: openoffice.org-headless Suggests: openoffice.org 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/