harvey/sys/man/1/doc2txt

.TH DOC2TXT 1
.SH NAME
doc2txt, doc2ps, wdoc2txt, xls2txt, olefs, mswordstrings, msexceltables
\- extract printable text from Microsoft documents
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B doc2txt
[
.I file.doc
]
.br
.B doc2ps
[
.I file.doc
]
.br
.B wdoc2txt
[
.I file.doc
]
.br
.B xls2txt
[
.I file.xls
]
.br
.B aux/olefs
[
.B -m
.I mtpt
]
.I file.doc
.br
.B aux/mswordstrings 
.IB mtpt /WordDocument
.br
.B aux/msexceltables
[
.B -aDnt
] [
.B -d
.I delim
] [
.B -w
.I worksheet-range
]
.IB mtpt /Workbook
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Doc2txt
is an
.IR rc (1)
script that uses 
.I olefs
and
.I mswordstrings
to extract the printable text from the body of a Microsoft Word document
and write it on the standard output.
.I Doc2ps
is similar, but emits PostScript corresponding to the document.
.I Wdoc2txt
is similar to
.IR doc2txt ,
but uses
.IR plumb (1)
to send the output to a new
.IR acme (1)
window instead.
.I Xls2txt
performs a similar function for Microsoft Excel documents.
.PP
Microsoft Office documents are stored in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
format, which is a scaled down version of Microsoft's FAT file system.
.I Olefs
presents the contents of an MS Office document as a file system
on
.IR mtpt ,
which defaults to
.BR /mnt/doc .
.I Mswordstrings
or
.I msexceltables
may then be used to parse the files inside, extracting
a text stream.
.I Msexceltables
may be given options to control the formatting of its output.
.TF "\f(CW-d \fIdelim"
.TP
.B -a
Attempt conversion of non-tabular sheets in the workbook (charts).
.TP
.BI -d " delim
Sets the inter-field delimiter to the string
.IR delim ,
by default a single space.
.TP
.B -D
Enables debugging output.
.TP
.B -n
Disables field padding to column width.
.TP
.B -t
Truncate fields to the column width.
.TP
.BI -w " pages
.I Pages
is a comma-separated list of page numbers and ranges.
Ranges are separated by dashes.
Limit processing to just those pages named;
by default all tabular sheets are output.
Suppressed chart pages are always included in the sheet count.
.SH EXAMPLE
Extract pieces of an MS Excel spreadsheet.
.PD 0
.IP
.EX
aux/olefs report.xls
msexceltables -w 1,7,9-14,3-4 -n -d '@' /mnt/doc/Workbook
unmount /mnt/doc
.EE
.PD
.SH SOURCE
.TF "\f(CW/sys/src/cmd/aux   "
.TP
.B /rc/bin
.BR doc2txt ,
.BR doc2ps ,
.BR wdoc2txt,
and
.BR xls2txt
.TP
.B /sys/src/cmd/aux
the others
.fi
.PD
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR strings (1)
.br
``Microsoft Word 97 Binary File Format'',
at Microsoft's developer (MSDN) home page.
.br
``LAOLA Binary Structures'', 
.B http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh 
.br
``OpenOffice.Org's Excel Documentation'',
.br
.B http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf