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How to extract the text from MS Office documents in Linux?

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Mar 15, 202639386 views

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I need a way to extract the text from all of the MS Office document types (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), in Linux. I envision that there might be several different approaches to accomplish this, such as a Bash or Python script, or converting them to PDF and then extracting the text using a tool such as…

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Catdoc can convert doc,xls & ppt to text. Second option would be wvWare. For more utils check check http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/52385 for word to text coverters and

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