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Re: [ITP] catdoc-0.93.3 - New package
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Jari Aalto+mail.linux" <letters at hotpop dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:55:41 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [ITP] catdoc-0.93.3 - New package
- References: <d68ecwyf.fsf@blue.sea.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
> Extract text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special
> printable characters as possible. Catdoc doesn't attempt to analyze
> Word file formatting, it just extracts readable text. Known to
> support up to Word-97 format.
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/catdoc/
Question: how is this different from 'antiword'?
Igor
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