[Corpora-List] .doc to .txt converter

[Martin Reynaert]

Dear Sara,

I seem to have converged on this solution over the past years:

$ abiword -t txt *.doc

This in fact gives text output with extension *.txt for each 
TextFileName.doc. There are also options to keep or change the files' 
character encoding should you want/need to do that.

As is Tristan's solution, this is a command line one. The $ in the 
command stands for the command line 'prompt'.

Google seems to tell me there are plenty of Windows versions for 
Abiword. If I had to do this right now, I would sure compare both 
LibreOffice and Abiword performances in terms of output.

As it is, I do not seem to recall how one would go about doing this in a 
GUI-environment unless there is an actual option for batch conversion in 
one of the program's menus.

Seems you have several options. Do let us know which worked best ;0)

Regards,

Martin


On 10/26/2012 05:19 PM, Tristan Miller wrote:
> Dear Sara,
>
> On 26/10/12 02:03 PM, Sara Berlanda wrote:
>> can anybody advise me about a tool which can convert 3000
>> Word files (.doc) into 3000 .txt files at once? The
>> tool should run on Windows 7 platform.
> LibreOffice <http://www.libreoffice.org/> can do this when invoked from
> the command line with appropriate parameters.
>
> The following works for me on GNU/Linux, though the call should be
> similar or identical on Windows 7:
>
> libreoffice --headless --convert-to txt:text *.doc
>
> Regards,
> Tristan
>
>
>
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