NYCPHP Meetup

[Anirudh Zala]

On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 01:07:49 csnyder wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Jon Baer <jonbaer at jonbaer.com> wrote:
> > I think he was asking about a .doc file directly?  Im suprised that
> > manipulation of Word docs always comes up on the list + the resources are
> > pretty limited.
> >
> > One project I found a while ago was antiword in which the sources are
> > available:
> >
> >
> > http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
>
> There was a reference earlier to catdoc. The url for that project is
> http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
>
> The changelog shows slightly more recent activity than AntiWord, but I
> suppose it all breaks with Office 2007 (or whatever year they're up to
> in Redmond).

This is very nice command line utility to extract text from Word and 
Powerpoint slides. It runs on most of *nix systems. Can be used to extract 
text (in form of CSV) from XLS files also.

We have been using it very happily for long time.

Thanks

Anirudh Zala