catdoc

MS Word/Excel converter to plain ASCII or TeX. TK viewer included

This is a program for viewing RTF and MS Word 97 documents. It produces plain text output and can optionally convert some non-standard characters into TeX control sequences. It has rudimentary table handling in TeX mode. Also included are: - wordview, a small GUI frontend to catdoc that works with Tcl/Tk 7.6 and up; - xls2csv, which converts Excel spreadsheets to plain text files with CSV (comma-separated value) lines; and - catppt, which extracts text from PowerPoint files.