Word2Txt, Version 1.03 Extract plain text from a Word document and send it to the screen Usage: Word2Txt "wordfile" [ encoding | /D ] or: Word2Txt /E Where: wordfile is the path of the Word document to be read (no wildcards allowed) encoding force use of alternative encoding for plain text, e.g. UTF-8 to preserve accented characters or IBM437 to convert unicode quotes to ASCII /D use the encoding specified in the document file (for .DOCX and .ODT only, if Word isn't available) /E list all available encodings Notes: If a "regular" (MSI based) Microsoft Word (2007 or later) installation is detected, this program will use Word to read the text from the Word file, which may be ANY file format recognized by Word. If Word was already active when this program is started, any other opened document(s) will be left alone, and only the document opened by this program will be closed. If Word is not available, the text can still be extracted, but only from .DOC, .DOCX, .ODT, .RTF and .WPD files. This program requires .NET 4.5. Return code ("errorlevel") 0 means no errors were encounterd and some text was extracted from the file; otherwise the return code will be 1. Written by Rob van der Woude https://www.robvanderwoude.com