View MS Word files in the Commandline with AntiWord
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Antiword is a neat little application that can convert Word documents to plain text, PostScript, and PDF. According to the developer, conversion to DocBook XML is still experimental and doesn’t always work well.
Antiword is can read and convert files created with Word versions 2.0 to 2003, and you can run it on multitude of OSes, including Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and OpenVMS. On top of that, you can set the paper size for documents converted to PostScript or PDF, include any text that was removed from the file (but which Word notoriously keeps a record of), and display any hidden text.