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Good Word doc -> plain text conversion

Subject: Good Word doc -> plain text conversion
From: lconrad-O0WJhd4tT3hg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org (Laura Conrad)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:28:35 -0400
In-reply-to: <20100819153828.28475.jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w@public.gmane.org> (jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w@public.gmane.org's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:38:28")
References: <20100819153828.28475.jc@trillian.mit.edu>

>>>>> "John" ==   <jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org> writes:

    John> Anyone here have advice on programs (scriptable and  usable
    John> on linux) that convert Word docs to plain text?

I get reasonably good results with wvText.

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