From: phearbear (phearbear@home.se)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 18:31:13 EDT
Hubert Figuiere wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:23:51 -0400
>From: Andre Warnier <aw_eis@compuserve.com>
>Subject: request
>Sender: Andre Warnier <aw_eis@compuserve.com>
>To: AbiWord developers <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
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>Dear Sirs,
>
>I recently discovered AbiWord (and wvWare). Very nice, and thanks a lot.=
>
>
>In the course of a development project, I am looking for a command-line
>driven Word-to-text conversion utility, preferably working both under
>Unix(es) and Windows NT/2000. It is to be called by a "daemon/service"
>process, so it should not pop up interactive messages/questions all over
>the place.
>In the system being developed, the original document is kept and stored f=
>or
>later retrieval, and the text result of the conversion is destined to be
>input in a full-text search & retrieval system. This text result can als=
>o
>be post-filtered by various means before being sent to the full-text
>system.
>(I could also take XML output e.g.).
>In other words - in a manner of speaking - the text result does not have =
>to
>be faithful to the original word document in terms of presentation, layou=
>t
>etc..., what is important is that the words would be there, mostly. The
>expected character set of the original word documents would be in the
>ISO-8859-1 range.
>
>I am not a guru-level programmer, more someone able to assemble existing
>pieces and twiddle with them to make them fit into an application.
>I have looked at various commercially available converters, but none of
>them seems to be available for Unix platforms.
>I have tried to use wvWare under Windows NT, and cannot seem to make it
>work reliably : some documents make it crash with invalid accesses etc..
>On the other hand, I have installed AbiWord under NT - which is supposedl=
>y
>using the wvWare import library - and AbiWord seems to do an excellent jo=
>b
>of importing the same Word documents, and save them as plain text. And
>AbiWord is also much much easier to install on a NT system.
>
>I am thus turning to you with a request : would a developer in your group=
>
>be interested in creating, on the base of the AbiWord modules, the
>command-line utility that I need (or a command-line wrapper around
>AbiWord), and if yes under what conditions ?
>I have no problem with the utility in question being placed itself under =
>a
>GPL.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>
>Andr=E9 Warnier
>EIS LP
>tel +49-7433-385419
>fax +49-7433-385418
>email : aw_eis@compuserve.com
>
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>
>
Even though it might not fit saying this in a Abiword Mailinglist ;),
there is a very handy util called 'antiword' which simply converts a
word document to plain text in a nice way.
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