Re: AbiWord as Word->Text

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 12:54:10 EDT

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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 12:52, Thorsten Henninger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> abiword --to txt word.doc
>
> does work, but it takes a long time:
>
> time abiword --to txt freddy_sozialisation.doc
>
> real 0m1.075s
> user 0m0.840s
> sys 0m0.050s
>
> for a two page document - i would like to convert
> a lot of documents :)

No, do not tune abiword here. Instead. check out wv. It is trivial to
turn a Word doc into text using the wvText program or a small C/C++
program based on libwv.a that you can write yourself - or if you contact
me, I can write it for you for a fee.

Dom

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