BSD Ports

textproc/catdoc 0.95_1 DragonFly

MS Word/Excel converter to plain ASCII or TeX. TK viewer included

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
textproc
Package size
81.6 KiB, 616.2 KiB installed

Description

This is a program for viewing RTF and MS Word 97 documents. It produces plain text output and can optionally convert some non-standard characters into TeX control sequences. It has rudimentary table handling in TeX mode. Also included are:

  • wordview, a small GUI frontend to catdoc that works with Tcl/Tk 7.6 and up;
  • xls2csv, which converts Excel spreadsheets to plain text files with CSV (comma-separated value) lines; and
  • catppt, which extracts text from PowerPoint files.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlytextproc/catdoc0.95_1
FreeBSDtextproc/catdoc0.95_1
OpenBSDtextproc/catdoc0.95
NetBSDtextproc/catdoc0.95
MidnightBSDtextproc/catdoc0.95

Install

Binary package:

pkg install catdoc

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/textproc/catdoc && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2