NAME

doc2txt, olefs, mswordstrings − extract printable strings from Microsoft Word documents

SYNOPSIS

­doc2txt [ ­file.doc ]
­aux/olefs [ ­-m ­mtpt ] ­file.doc
­aux/mswordstrings ­/mnt/doc/WordDocument

DESCRIPTION

­Doc2txt is a shell script that uses ­olefs and ­mswordstrings to extract the printable text from the body of a Microsoft Word document. 

Microsoft Office documents are stored in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) format, which is a scaled down version of Microsoft’s FAT file system.  ­Olefs presents the contents of an Office document as a file system on mtpt, which defaults to /mnt/doc.  ­Mswordstrings parses the ­WordDocument file inside an Office document, extracting the text stream. 

SOURCE

­/sys/src/cmd/aux/mswordstrings.c
­/sys/src/cmd/aux/olefs.c
­/rc/bin/doc2txt

SEE ALSO

strings(1)
“Microsoft Word 97 Binary File Format”, available on line at Microsoft’s developer home page.
“LAOLA Binary Structures”, snake.cs.tu-berlin.de:8081/~schwartz/pmh.

Plan 9  —  July 29, 2000