Adam Cooper wrote: > Sorry if this has already come up. > > Which is the best MS .doc file "parser" i.e. which give the most true > display as seen in MS office. > > Openoffice doesn't seem to cope with a large doc I've got. I'm going to > install Abi and give that a go. > > Any others? > > Thanks for any help > Adam > > It depends on what you want to do ... If it's just recovering maximum of text, you could use the following: antiword : http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ a2ps : http://www.infres.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/ wvHtml : http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ wvText : http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ Good luck, Marian