WPS2TEXT(1)

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version 0.4.14 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 WPS2TEXT 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for wps2text, and it lives in the User Commands section of your man pages, and it's from libwps 0.4.14. she's a little utility, she's lowkey iconic, and she has ONE job: taking crusty old Microsoft documents and turning them into nice plain text. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wps2text — no cap, that's literally the name, it's the manual page for wps2text version 0.4.14. that's the whole name section. slay. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wps2text [OPTION] FILE

that's it. one FILE, some optional OPTIONs. the way that this is so simple?? obsessed. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: wps2text converts various Microsoft text document formats to plain text. it's giving "rescue your grandma's old files from 1994" energy and honestly? we love that for us.

the formats it can handle are:

  • Microsoft Works
  • Write
  • Word for DOS

periodt. if your file is one of those, she's got you. 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the whole menu, bestie, every single flag, no skipping, iykyk:

  • -e ENCODING — this one sets the file encoding. and because the devs were thorough, encoding can be literally any of these:
    • CP037
    • CP424
    • CP437
    • CP737
    • CP500
    • CP775
    • CP850
    • CP852
    • CP855
    • CP856
    • CP857
    • CP860
    • CP861
    • CP862
    • CP863
    • CP864
    • CP865
    • CP866
    • CP869
    • CP874
    • CP875
    • CP932
    • CP950
    • CP1006
    • CP1026
    • CP1250
    • CP1251
    • CP1252
    • CP1253
    • CP1254
    • CP1255
    • CP1256
    • CP1257
    • CP1258
    • MacArabic
    • MacCeltic
    • MacCEurope
    • MacCroation
    • MacCyrillic
    • MacDevanage
    • MacFarsi
    • MacGaelic
    • MacGreek
    • MacGujarati
    • MacGurmukhi
    • MacHebrew
    • MacIceland
    • MacInuit
    • MacRoman
    • MacRomanian
    • MacThai
    • MacTurkish

like… that's a LOT of encodings, and yes, we are listing every single one, because every single one matters. 💜

  • -h — shows you this help message. your girl -h is here to help, she's so real for that. 🙈
  • -p PASSWORD — sets the password so you can actually open the file. locked files? not on our watch. 🔥
  • -v — shows version information. short king. shows you the version. that's the whole thing. ⭐

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay, let's handle it. report it to:

they'll take care of you, bestie, don't suffer in silence 😭

and that's the whole page!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

cute little sign-off for you: this beauty is from libwps 0.4.14, dated July 2025, and it's the WPS2TEXT(1) manual page. go convert something and be the main character of your own file recovery story 👑💅

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