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antiword

Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents

v1.3.5 · Feb 26, 2026 · GPL-2
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Description

Wraps the 'AntiWord' utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents. The utility only supports the old 'doc' format, not the new xml based 'docx' format. Use the 'xml2' package to read the latter.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (3)

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eurlex readtext

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tm

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies sys eurlex readtext tm antiword

Version History

new 1.3.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.5 ← 1.3.4 diff Feb 26, 2026
updated 1.3.4 ← 1.3.3 diff Oct 3, 2024
updated 1.3.3 ← 1.3.2 diff Jan 29, 2024
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Jan 17, 2024
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3 diff Mar 20, 2022
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Nov 8, 2018
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Oct 6, 2018
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Apr 28, 2017
new 1.0 Apr 21, 2017