Re: Undoc.el: strip MS Word formatting

[Florian Weimer]

guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman) writes:

> If so, you need undoc.el, enclosed below.  It extracts the ascii
> substrings from the word document (or presumably other formats too),
> after which it uses fill-paragraph to make things readable.  Very
> simple tables come out legible.  Graphics or elaborate tables are a
> lost cause.

Please keep in mind that the ASCII strings might include deleted text
portions.  The text you are looking at after using such a tool is not
necessarily the same a Word user sees on his screen (but it can be
*very* interesting, I have to admit).