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authorzuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org>2001-10-31 20:59:00 +0000
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+External converter script for ht://Dig (version 3.1.4 and later), that
+converts Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, and PDF,
+PostScript, RTF, and WordPerfect files to text (in HTML form) so they
+can be indexed. Uses a variety of conversion programs:
+
+ wp2html - to convert Wordperfect and Word7 & 97 documents to HTML
+ catdoc - to extract text from Word documents
+ rtf2html - to convert RTF documents to HTML
+ pdftotext - to extract text from Adobe PDFs
+ ps2ascii - to extract text from PostScript
+ pptHtml - to convert Powerpoint files to HTML
+ xlHtml - to convert Excel spreadsheets to HTML
+or
+ xls2csv - to obtain data from Excel spreadsheets.
+
+Written by David Adams (University of Southampton), and based on the
+conv_doc.pl script by Gilles Detillieux.