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Re: [ITP] catdoc-0.93.3 - New package


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

> * Mon 2004-02-16 Igor Pechtchanski
> | 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
>
> catdoc is the "original". Essentially these two are the same.
> I ran a simple tests with these two and I looked like catdoc
> preserved paragraph bounds together better than antiword
> (which stuck lines together).
>
> Why not have both!
>
> Jari

No contest from me here.  Just axin'... ;-)
	Igor
P.S. This has my vote.
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