Common Lisp Library for MS Word files (.doc or .docx)?

[Mark H. David]

Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?
Thanks,
-Mark

[Chris Perkins]

Mark,

I don't know of any Common Lisp libraries, but the Apache Foundation has
a Java library for that. 'Apache POI'. http://poi.apache.org/ I used
it several years ago and it worked well, though I was not reading .doc
files.

Hope this helps,

Chris

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?
Thanks,
-Mark
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[Daniel Herring]

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?

I suspect that RDNZL might provide the best results. You can use it to
hook into the beast itself.

Your other approach is to hook into the code for another office suite such
as Open/LibreOffice, AbiWord, or KWord.

In addition to Apache POI, there is also wvWare, but it doesn't support
the new XML formats...

Right when the libraries were becoming good at doc, MS went and changed
formats. Funny coincidence, that.

Later,
Daniel

[Shaneal Manek]

A few years back I used the standalone 'antiword' binary to convert
.doc files to plaintext. It seemed to work pretty well.

-Shaneal

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?

I suspect that RDNZL might provide the best results.  You can use it to
hook into the beast itself.
Your other approach is to hook into the code for another office suite such
as Open/LibreOffice, AbiWord, or KWord.
In addition to Apache POI, there is also wvWare, but it doesn't support
the new XML formats...
Right when the libraries were becoming good at doc, MS went and changed
formats.  Funny coincidence, that.
Later,
Daniel
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[Peter Seibel]

I have some code that I used when doing my books for parsing and
generating RTF. Worked pretty well but is nowhere near polished or
well packaged.

-Peter

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?
Thanks,
-Mark
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[Matthew Mondor]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:46:54 -0500

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?

Unfortunately also not CL, but other utilities to look into would be
antiword and OdfConverter (which also claims to support OOXML).

[Alessio Stalla]

Post by Mark H. David
Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
them to plain text or other formats, things like that?
Thanks,
-Mark

I know some time ago Knut Olav Bøhmer was fiddling with OpenOffice.org
and ABCL. I don't know if that ever resulted in a library suiting your
purpose.

hth,
Alessio