4d-plugin-doctotext

4D implementation of DocToText.

Abstract

the goal of this project is to support legacy Microsoft Word documents with the .doc file extension.

• wv can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats.

• wvware is a document converter that uses wv to import .doc files. the outout format includes .rtf, .txt, .tex, .pdf or .html. see unofficial mirror.

• abiword is a word processor that uses wv to import .doc files. it has a command line interface and server mode, similar to OpenOffice, that can be uses as a document converter. wvware deprecated its own suite of converters in favour of abiword.

• wv2 is the successor to wv. it depends on zlib, libgsf, libbz2, libxml2, libiconv and glib, which in turns depends on libffi and libpcre.

• doctotext is a document converter that uses wv2 to import .doc files. additionally it uses libcharsetdetect, htmlcxx, libmimetic, minizip to support other input formats. the outout format is always plain text.

• pthread-win32 nuget might not work, need to compile from source.

Features

extract plain text from various file types:

Syntax

status:=DocToText (document;options;attachments)

Parameter	Type	Description
document	BLOB
options	Object	see below
attachments	Array BLOB
status	Object

Options

Property	Type	Description
xml	Text	parse (default) fix strip
table	Text	table (default) row col
url	Text	underscored (default) text extended
list	Text	* (default) or any string
verbose	Boolean	false (default)
fallback	Boolean	false (default)
format	Text	.doc (default) .rtf .docx .pptx .xlsx .fodt .fods .fodp .fodg .odt .ods .odp .odg .ppt .xls .xlsb .pages .numbers .key .html .pdf .eml