DOCX2TXT(1)

📦 version 1.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DOCX2TXT 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're learning about docx2txt — a General Commands Manual baddie that turns your Microsoft OOXML files into plain text. no cap. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

docx2txt — convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text. that's the whole job description and she does it flawlessly 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

docx2txt [ infile.docx|-|-h ] [ outfile.txt|- ]
docx2txt < infile.docx
docx2txt < infile.docx > outfile.txt

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this manual page documents briefly the docx2txt commands. briefly! we're keeping it cute and to the point 🫶

docx2txt docx2txt is a tool that attempts to generate equivalent plain text files from Microsoft .docx documents, preserving some formatting and document information (the stuff MS text conversion just… drops, rip to her 😭) along with appropriate character conversions for a good (ascii or utf-8) text experience. it's giving platform independent — she's a whole solution consisting of (core) Perl and (wrapper) Unix/Windows shell scripts, plus a configuration file to control the output text appearance to a fair extent. the way that she can very conveniently be used to build a Web-based docx document conversion service?? main character energy fr fr 👑

and here's the iconic part: with unzippers like CakeCmd that can deal with corrupt Zip archives, this tool can extract text from corrupt docx documents in many cases — like, situations where MS Word fails to even open them. she ate that. 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h — drop this as the first argument and you get this usage information. it's the "help me bestie" flag 🥺
  • - — use this as the infile name and she reads the docx file from STDIN. slay, pipe it in 🌈
  • - — use this as the outfile name and she dumps the text on STDOUT. and heads up: output is saved in infile.txt if the second argument is omitted. lowkey convenient 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

docx2txt was written by Sandeep Kumar <shimple0@yahoo.com>. legend behaviour 🫡

This manual page was written by Khalid El Fathi <khalid@elfathi.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). shoutout to the manual-page girlies, y'all are the real ones 🎀

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie. this page is rocking the DOCX2TXT(1) header and came to you courtesy of the General Commands Manual, dated February 25, 2012 — a vintage queen who still serves 💖✨ no notes, periodt. 🦋

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