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tn_dang:
Hello:

I would like to know if somebody knows an utility which:

* converts Microsoft Word document (doc/docx) to text.
* free for commercial uses.
* can be invoked at the command line.
* runs on Windows XP and later.
* can be ran without Microsoft Word installed on the computer.
Thank you for for your time and efforts.

Regards,

Thanh

justice:
wordpad for windows 7

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NEED: Microsoft Word (doc/docx) to text converter.

rjbull:
I don't know about DOCX, but for plain DOC, Antiword for Windows worked well for me.

There's also catdoc, which was more for DOS and Linux, but I could never get it to work.  I see there's now a 32-bit Windows version, catdoc ported to Windows, but the author says it doesn't support DOCX either.  A quick Google search turned up a few leads that might be worth following.

mwb1100:
I don't think it fully meets your requirements, but might get you part way there.  Windows includes a "Generic / Text Only" printer driver that you can install to the FILE: port.

As far as I remember, it does ask several questions when you print to it, but maybe a scripting or AHK guru could automate those.  Also, generally Word needs to be installed to print the document, but a free Viewer/Compatibility Pack (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090) may work well enough for you.

Word does have a 'save to text' option that could be scripted, but I suspect that the free Viewer/Compatibility Pack versions don't have that ability.

fenixproductions:
This may help:
http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~h_ishida/xdoc2txt.html

Don't be scared with Japanese :)

Also, if someone is skilled with Visual Basic 6 he/she could write something from this:
http://freemind.s57.xrea.com/xdocdiffPlugin/en/index.html

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