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Section: Unix

Added: Wed, Aug 2nd 2006 16:08 UTC (2 years, 5 months ago)

Updated: Sat, Oct 11th 2008 19:21 UTC (2 months, 29 days ago)

About:
SILVERCODERS DocToText is a powerful utility that can convert MS Word binary format (DOC), Rich Text Format (RTF), OpenDocument (also known as ODF and ISO/IEC 26300), and Office Open XML documents (ISO/IEC 29500, also called OOXML, OpenXML, or MSOOXML) to plain text. Extracted plain text from doc, rtf, odt, ods, odp, docx, xlsx, and pptx files can be used for a lot of things like searching, indexing, or archiving. DocToText can be also used as a fast console viewer.

Author:
silvercoders [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://silvercoders.com/index.php?page=DocToText

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 4 - Beta
[Environment] Console (Text Based), Win32 (MS Windows)
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] Microsoft :: Windows, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX, POSIX :: Linux, Unix
[Programming Language] C++
[Topic] Office/Business, System :: Archiving, Text Processing, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
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Project admins: [change]
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Comments

[»] prior art
by Michael Shigorin - Aug 3rd 2006 09:41:07

...is it much better than catdoc(1)? :)

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[»] Re: prior art
by silvercoders - Oct 11th 2008 21:08:54

> ...is it much better than catdoc(1)? :)

It supports more formats (OpenDocument, Office Open XML) and as far as I know some inconvenient DOC documents are handled better.

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[»] Re: prior art
by Michael Shigorin - Oct 11th 2008 21:20:56

Thanks for both the utility and description update then; will have a look :-)

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[»] Re: prior art
by silvercoders - Oct 12th 2008 18:18:09

> Thanks for both the utility and

> description update then; will have a

> look :-)

There is one more thing: catdoc is not actively developed since 2005. Doctotext was started in 2006 and will have new functionalities, like for example pdf support. You can consider it as a future replacement.

We could try to add something to catdoc, but we started new project because of licensing issues (we need to use doctotext in our commercial software).

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