extract plain text from MS Word docx files

unzip -p some.docx word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]]\{1,\}//g'

Tested on MacOS X

By: putnamhill

2009-12-10 15:13:33

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Nice. Just want to add that quickview has no problems with docx

tmadsen · 749 weeks and 6 days ago

I haven't heard of quickview, but that's probably because I'm on MacOS 10.3.9. I seem to be missing all sorts of goodies!

putnamhill · 749 weeks and 6 days ago

"| strings" might work instead of sed; "\+" would be a shorter equivalent of "\{1,\}"

w216 · 747 weeks and 1 day ago

Nice! But \n is lost. Can someone help with that?

3aa · 578 weeks and 6 days ago

3aa: I eventually delivered! unzip -p file.docx word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<\/w:p>/\n/g; s/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]\n]\{1,\}//g'

jaymcjay · 441 weeks ago

Thank you for this. Very helpful.

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cepeb · 114 weeks and 4 days ago

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