[ILUG] convert word docs -> html

[CPH]

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 14:25, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got over 2000 word documents I need to convert to html. I've been
> trying with wvHtml from wvWare with varying results - some of the docs
> contain a little text box with the recieved date inside, wvHtml has
> problems with this and gives me this line:
>
> <i>(subject to editorial corrections)</i><b><img alt="0x08 graphic"
> src="StrangeNoGraphicData"><br></b><i><img alt="0x08 graphic"
> src="StrangeNoGraphicData"><br></i>
>
> Googling on this gives a few hits, most of them saying to make sure
> wvware is compiled with libwmf support, which I'm pretty sure the debian
> sid package I'm using is.
>
> So, failing getting this to work, does anyone know any other apps that
> can do what I require? A lot of the other apps I've looked at seem to
> use wv as thier backend (abiword, etc) or just dont bother working with
> anything like an image (catdoc). Oowriter from openoffice does a
> marvellous job when I open the doc and manually save it as html, but it
> would seem far from trivial to script.

There should be an OpenOffice.org macro available at http://ooomacros.org
to do there type of standard conversions.
OOo doc convertor : http://ooomacros.org/user.php#95532

CPH