[ITP] catdoc-0.93.3 - New package

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Feb 17 01:55:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:

> Extract text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special
> printable characters as possible. Catdoc doesn't attempt to analyze
> Word file formatting, it just extracts readable text. Known to
> support up to Word-97 format.
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/catdoc/

Question: how is this different from 'antiword'?
	Igor
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