There are tools out there that allow you to convert the
Word format into something else, and possibly something you
can later convert into text/plain. antiword
is one of them and does a pretty good job.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any free tool that can
handle the bewildering complexity of a document laden with
tables, pictures, OLE objects, bells, whistles, whatever. And
what will become of your converter when they "upgrade" to MS
Word 200x?
The safest would be to have access to an instance of Word
itself and drive it from your perl program with Win32::OLE
or something like that. I've got no experience with that,
though.
--bwana147
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