Odf2Txt: Converter of OpenOffice.org
documents to text form

Description

The OdfToTxt is a Win32 console program, which allows to dump plain-text contents of OpenOffice.org documents. The following document extensions are supported:

ODT ODS ODP ODG ODF ODB ODM OTT OTH OTS OTG OTP SXW SXC SXG SXI SXD SXM STW STC STD STI

Note that only the text is extracted from documents, any document formatting is stripped. If you use it with tables, you'll get only the text contained in the tables cells.

It is open source, written in Borland Delphi, the source code (including some other OOo related stuff) can be downloaded here. The license for code is Mozilla Public License Version 1.1.

Usage

The command line syntax is the following:
  OdfToTxt.exe FileName [ Options ]
where options are:

Usage in FAR manager

  1. Copy OdfToTxt.exe and unzip32.dll to any folder listed in your %PATH% environment variable.
  2. Go to menu Commands -> File associations, then add association:

That's all - now you may view OpenOffice.org documents by using F3 key.
Note: FAR Commands plugin must be installed for association to work properly.

Versions history

Copyrights

Copyright © 2005-2007 Alexey Torgashin
http://atorg.net.ru