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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: extracting text from docx files
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:40:26AM -0400, Rod Person wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:36:32 +0100
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You could try this for just plain text conversion
> http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/

Thank you
Anton

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