Antiword - Text Processing for Media Mover

Using the Antiword program, Media Mover now has its first text converter. Antiword can take Microsoft doc files and convert them to pdf, ps, and txt files, giving site admins the ability to get rid of those pesky MS files- or at least provide alternate formats.

For sites that have a number of doc files already on the site, Media Mover can batch convert these for you. For sites that want all uploaded files to be in the same format, Antiword gives you a good way to have your users files converted.

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Published 03/01/2009 by arthur  
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Comments

Submitted by Jose G. (not verified) on 03/17/2009

Hi!

I was curious to know why you decided antiword versus an openoffice daemon installation that, I think, can handle many more formats than anti-word.

JG

Submitted by arthur on 03/17/2009

I agree that OO is a better bet, though the installation size is significant and the configuration I think proves more challenging for the average user. That being said, I'm talking to Sun about potentially providing a smaller OO binary that can be used for exactly this.