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  1. .TH DOC2TXT 1
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  2. .SH NAME
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  3. doc2txt, xls2txt olefs, mswordstrings msexceltable \- extract printable strings from Microsoft Office documents
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  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
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  5. .B doc2txt
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  6. [
    7. 

  7. .I file.doc
    8. 

  8. ]
    9. 

  9. .br
    10. 

  10. .B xls2txt
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  11. [
    12. 

  12. .I file.xls
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  13. ]
    14. 

  14. .br
    15. 

  15. .B aux/olefs
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  16. [
    17. 

  17. .B -m
    18. 

  18. .I mtpt
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  19. ]
    20. 

  20. .I file.doc
    21. 

  21. .br
    22. 

  22. .B aux/mswordstrings 
    23. 

  23. .I /mnt/doc/WordDocument
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  24. .br
    25. 

  25. .B aux/msexceltable
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  26. [
    27. 

  27. .B -n
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  28. ] [
    29. 

  29. .B -t
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  30. ] [
    31. 

  31. .B -a
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  32. ] [
    33. 

  33. .BI -d delim
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  34. ]
    35. 

  35. .I /mnt/doc/Workbook
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  36. .SH DESCRIPTION
    37. 

  37. .I Doc2txt
    38. 

  38. is a shell script that uses 
    39. 

  39. .I olefs
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  40. and
    41. 

  41. .I mswordstrings
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  42. to extract the printable text from the body of a Microsoft Word document.
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  43. .I Xls2txt
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  44. performs a similar function for Microsoft Excel documents.
    45. 

  45. .PP
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  46. Microsoft Office documents are stored in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
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  47. format, which is a scaled down version of Microsoft's FAT file system.
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  48. .I Olefs
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  49. presents the contents of an Office document as a file system
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  50. on
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  51. .IR mtpt ,
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  52. which defaults to
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  53. .BR /mnt/doc .
    54. 

  54. .I Mswordstrings
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  55. or
    56. 

  56. .I msexceltables
    57. 

  57. may then be used to parse the files inside, extracting
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  58. a text stream.
    59. 

  59. .I Msexceltables
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  60. may be given options to control the formatting of its output.
    61. 

  61. .TP
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  62. -n
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  63. Disables field padding to colum width.
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  64. .TP
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  65. -t
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  66. Truncate fields to the colum width.
    67. 

  67. .TP
    68. 

  68. -a
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  69. Attempt conversion of non-tabular sheets in the workbook. (charts).
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  70. .TP
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  71. -d \fIdelim\fR
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  72. Sets the interfield delimiter to the string \fIdelim\fR, by default a single space.
    73. 

  73. .SH SOURCE
    74. 

  74. .B /sys/src/cmd/aux/mswordstrings.c
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  75. .br
    76. 

  76. .B /sys/src/cmd/aux/msexceltables.c
    77. 

  77. .br
    78. 

  78. .B /sys/src/cmd/aux/olefs.c
    79. 

  79. .br
    80. 

  80. .B /rc/bin/xls2txt
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  81. .br
    82. 

  82. .B /rc/bin/doc2txt
    83. 

  83. .SH BUGS
    84. 

  84. .I Msexcelstrings
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  85. cannot parse files containing rich text field descriptions or Asian phonetic
    86. 

  86. pronunciation hints due to a lack of ducumentation on these formats; It has
    87. 

  87. only been tested on BIFF8 files generated by MS Office 97; Caveat Emptor.
    88. 

  88. .SH SEE ALSO
    89. 

  89. .IR strings (1)
    90. 

  90. .br
    91. 

  91. ``Microsoft Word 97 Binary File Format'',
    92. 

  92. available on line at Microsoft's developer home page.
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  93. .br
    94. 

  94. ``LAOLA Binary Structures'', 
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  95. .I http://snake.cs.tu-berlin.de:8081/~schwartz/pmh 
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  96. .br
    97. 

  97. ``OpenOffice.Org's Excel Documentation'',
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  98. .I http:\/\/sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf
    99.