Python script for deMSWordification?

[Gerhard Häring]

kelvin.chu at uvm.edu wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow Pythoneers;
> 
> Numerous colleagues and administration types send memos, colloqium
> announcements and other things around in Micro$oft word format.  Has anyone
> written a filter in Python that can convert these things into normal text?
> 
> If not, is there a basic set of rules for decoding .doc format files
> anywhere that I can look at?

Hmm, not Python, but wv (http://www.wvWare.com/) does that job. It
converts M$ Word (6, 95, 97, 2000) to various formats.

It's a (C, C++?) library, so you should be able to write a Python
binding, if you need to access the internals of a Word document. For
conversion only, calling the command line program will suffice, of
course.

Gerhard
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