Antiword

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Antiword
Developer Adri van Os
Stable release
0.37 / October 21, 2005 (2005-10-21)
Repository antiword on GitHub
Operating system Cross-platform
License GPL
Website www.winfield.demon.nl

Antiword is a free software reader for proprietary Microsoft Word documents, and is available for most computer platforms. Antiword can convert the documents from Microsoft Word version 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text, PostScript, PDF, and XML/DocBook (experimental).

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Overview

The Word format is proprietary and only officially supported on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Reading the format on other systems can be difficult or impossible. Antiword was created to support reading this format on these systems.

Using the plain text output of Antiword, a Word document can be processed and filtered using shell scripts traditional text tools such as diff and grep. [1] It can also be used to filter Word document spam. [2] [3]

Development has stagnated and no official release has been made since 2005.

As of 2024, the web site www.winfield.demon.nl has disappeared. However, a copy of the source code is now available as antiword on GitHub.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Barr, Joe (March 7, 2005). "CLI Magic: Antiword". Linux. Archived from the original on February 11, 2008. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  2. ↑ Yarden, Jonathan (January 31, 2005). "Don't let hidden application data expose your company's secrets". ZDNET. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  3. ↑ Hardin, John D. "Word doc spam". Nabble. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
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