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Word2Txt,  Version 1.05
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
         recognized text from the Word file, which may be ANY file format
         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, or if it encounters unreadable content
         (i.e. the file is corrupted), the text can still be extracted, but
         only from .DOC, .DOCX, .ODT, .RTF and .WPD files.
         If the specified encoding does not match any available encoding name,
         the program will try again, ignoring dashes; if that does not provide
         a match, the program will try matching the specified encoding with
         the available encodings' codepages.
         This program requires .NET 4.5.
         Return code ("errorlevel") 0 means Word encountered no errors and
         some text was extracted from the file; 1 means Word is not available
         or the file was corrupted; 2 means either command line errors or the
         program failed to extract any text.

Written by Rob van der Woude
https://www.robvanderwoude.com