Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processing program frequently distributed as a part of Microsoft Office.

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Tools

Antiword
a free Microsoft Word reader
Apache POI
a Java API for Microsoft Word
catdoc
recommended for .doc -> .txt. Other pertinent conveniences include Antiword,
unoconv
convert beetween any document supported by OpenOffice
Structured Storage Support for Tcl , by the amazing PT
a Tcl VFS filesystem which accesses .doc-s --well, their "storage containers", more precisely; practical use still requires decoding of Word's binary data format.
Word Reaper, by RS
extract text for a Microsoft Word document

Alternatives

Koffice
OpenOffice
Abiword

Description

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