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Extract plain text from MS Word docx files

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

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addywaddy commented Jul 4, 2018

I needed this to diff two word files. I first saved them as text using the above commands and then:

$ wdiff doc1.txt doc2.txt | colordiff

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