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.TH DOC2TXT 1
.SH NAME
doc2txt, olefs, mswordstrings \- extract printable strings from Microsoft Word documents
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B doc2txt
[
.I file.doc
]
.br
.B aux/olefs
[
.B -m
.I mtpt
]
.I file.doc
.br
.B aux/mswordstrings 
.I /mnt/doc/WordDocument
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Doc2txt
is a shell script that uses 
.I olefs
and
.I mswordstrings
to extract the printable text from the body of a Microsoft Word document.
.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 Office document as a file system
on
.IR mtpt ,
which defaults to
.BR /mnt/doc .
.I Mswordstrings
parses the 
.I WordDocument
file inside an Office document, extracting
the text stream.
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/aux/mswordstrings.c
.br
.B /sys/src/cmd/aux/olefs.c
.br
.B /rc/bin/doc2txt
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR strings (1)
.br
``Microsoft Word 97 Binary File Format'',
available on line at Microsoft's developer home page.
.br
``LAOLA Binary Structures'', 
.IR snake.cs.tu-berlin.de:8081/~schwartz/pmh .

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