Comments on: Bulk converting doc files into txt (or html) http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/ > From inner thoughts to the outer limits of Alexandre Rafalovitch Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: whist http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-20220 whist Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:21:09 +0000 http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-20220 I had a similar problem a few years ago. I finally managed to write a delphi pascal program that could convert doc to txt. But it was very slow and had to be baby-sitted (sat?). It's a perennial problems for corpus building. I had a similar problem a few years ago. I finally managed to write a delphi pascal program that could convert doc to txt. But it was very slow and had to be baby-sitted (sat?). It’s a perennial problems for corpus building.

]]> By: Alexandre Rafalovitch http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-19988 Alexandre Rafalovitch Wed, 28 May 2008 12:05:09 +0000 http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-19988 Thanks Alex, I never actually installed Google Desktop (not that I totally distrust Google or anything), so haven't seen those tools. But it is good to know they exist (or is it now 'existed'?). Thanks Alex,

I never actually installed Google Desktop (not that I totally distrust Google or anything), so haven’t seen those tools. But it is good to know they exist (or is it now ‘existed’?).

]]> By: Alex Jaculin http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-19884 Alex Jaculin Wed, 21 May 2008 10:54:55 +0000 http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2008/04/bulk-converting-doc-files-into-txt-or-html/#comment-19884 Once upon the time there was a pretty good tool in the installation of Google Desktop (pdf2txt, ppt2txt, etc). Once upon the time there was a pretty good tool in the installation of Google Desktop (pdf2txt, ppt2txt, etc).

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