From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 23:17:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CA1106566B for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499B78FC19 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p79Me5Ub076888; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:40:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:40:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: Anton Shterenlikht In-Reply-To: <20110809212634.GB41041@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <20110809133632.GA37445@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110809191610.GA6129@nyx.user-mode.org> <20110809212634.GB41041@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Christian Barthel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Antonio Olivares Subject: Re: extracting text from docx files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:17:55 -0000 On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:57:51PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: >>> 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 :( >>> >> >> Can also use libreoffice. It is in the ports system :) >> >> Without installing anything, Google Docs also opens *.docx files, if >> needed. There are other options too, but it depends on what Anton >> wants to install* or just view* & extract? > > Well.. I don't really want to install anything > just to read docx. So probably something as > small as possible. libreoffice (even if it's in ports, > which I dearly love) looks like a monster of > a package, so I'm not sure. Maybe an online service? If you don't have too many to convert at one time, and there's nothing secret in them, you could try http://www.doc2pdf.net/ - I've never used it, so caveat clicktor. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]