Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:46:18 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl and MsOffice Message-ID: <3989A1DA.9DF53146@mitre.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008031210460.3877-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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"Philip M. Gollucci" wrote: > > I need to convert MsOffice Documents to HTML format. I know this can be > done with PERL (regular expression matching and replacement); however, I > do not know the conversion algorithms that Microshit uses. This needs to > work with people submitting file via an upload on a webpage. Anyone know > of any working programs or the conversions so I can do it myself. Well, I know of three: word2x: http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/ wv: http://www.wvWare.com/ catdoc: http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ Of these, wv is probably the best. Last time I used these (1998 or so) they were quite buggy and did only a very basic job converting the documents, caveat emptor. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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