catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for .doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file. Newest addition to catdoc suite is catppt - a program, which extracts readable text from the PowerPoint files.

WWW: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
