re: Reading Word's Custom Properties without opening a doc?

Subject: re: Reading Word's Custom Properties without opening a doc?
From: Greg Holmes <greg -dot- holmes -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:57:12 -0400


Rob Partridge wrote:

>I've got a whole bunch of Word docs spread over our
>network and I'm trying to get some info on them without
>having to open them all one by one. I know they all have
>titles and subtitles defined in Word's standard
>properties,and have release dates, doc numbers etc
>stored as custom properties.

There are a number of commandline utilities that
may or may not prove useful here:

catdoc
http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc/

Laola
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/index.html

word2x
http://word2x.sourceforge.net/

wvware
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

antiword
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html

They have lots of features for extracting text
and other information from Word documents.

I *know* that I've used one of these before to get
the metadata from Word documents in a script.
I can't for the life of me remember which one,
though :(

Greg Holmes

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ROBOHELP X5: Featuring Word 2003 support, Content Management, Multi-Author
support, PDF and XML support and much more!
TRY IT TODAY at http://www.macromedia.com/go/techwrl

WEBWORKS FINALDRAFT: New! Document review system for Word and FrameMaker
authors. Automatic browser-based drafts with unlimited reviewers. Full
online discussions -- no Web server needed! http://www.webworks.com/techwr-l

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archiver -at- techwr-l -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.



Previous by Author: Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community
Next by Author: Re: Why so few medical techwriters
Previous by Thread: RE: Reading Word's Custom Properties without opening a doc?
Next by Thread: Tech Whirlers - Introduction to a new model


What this post helpful? Share it with friends and colleagues:


Sponsored Ads