converting word documents

[A. Sinan Unur]

"Zak Chababe" <zchababe@comcast.net> wrote in news:naKPa.38830$ye4.30120
@sccrnsc01:

> We are in the process of converting thousands of MS word documents into
> some sort of database files like sql or comma separated files. Is there
> something out there with Perl that allows me to convert all these word
> documents? Any help is appreciated.

If you are on a Windows system with Word installed, you could use
Win32::OLE to automate conversion of Word documents.

Sinan.

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[James E Keenan]

"Zak Chababe" <zchababe@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:naKPa.38830$ye4.30120@sccrnsc01...

> Hi,
> We are in the process of converting thousands of MS word documents into
> some sort of database files like sql or comma separated files. Is there
> something out there with Perl that allows me to convert all these word
> documents? Any help is appreciated.
>
> /Zak
>

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