Zigster,
All I can say about strings is WOW! That works perfectly on Word 2k, WordPerfect 8, and Excel 2k files. Combined with pdftotext you have a nearly complete solution for extracting text from common user docs, which I'm doing for a search engine for a web-based document management site.
Just goes to show that if there's something you want to do on Unix/Linux, chances are the tool is already sitting on your hard drive.
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Glad to know it worked for you, I would be very interested in seeing the result when you have completed it. As a full on UNIX head working in a MS world a complete toolset for converting MS docs to ASCII would be of great interest to me. Please msg me when/if you complete the tools.
Cheers
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Zigster
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