Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:16:11 +0200 From: Christian Barthel <test@nyx.user-mode.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extracting text from docx files Message-ID: <20110809191610.GA6129@nyx.user-mode.org> In-Reply-To: <20110809133632.GA37445@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20110809133632.GA37445@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:36:32PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I often receive information in *.docx format > from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can > ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always. You have a lot of nice options: - Force them to use BSD/Linux ;) - explain them, why docx is shit! - don't read it > > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml files to find the > useful data. However, I can't find any > xml styles to use, so I have to convert > the relevant xml file(s) to plain text > by hand. I wonder if anybody can suggest > a better way. Perhaps there's something > in ports that can help. But if you really, really need to read docx, you can try the web application from Microsoft. A few months ago, I got also a lot of docx and I opend it with the microsoft web app; this worked for me to extract the information... More information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/ The downside: you have to sign up on a microsoft service :( cheers -- Christian Barthel Public-Key: http://bc.user-mode.org/bc.asc Mail: bc@nyx.user-mode.org Web: http://bc.user-mode.org
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