News Page
On this page I'll report on changes to my web site or related news items.
Don't expect a full-blown weblog, more like a list of highlights in shorthand.
For a file based list of changes look at the What's New list.
2022-01-17
•
Word2Txt.exe has been updated with
Rtf2Txt.exe's functionality.
So now it can handle
any file format recognized by Word if Word is installed, otherwise it can still handle .DOC, .DOCX, .ODT and .RTF files.
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ODT2Txt.exe is a new program to read the plain text from an OpenOffice .ODT file without requiring OpenOffice.
Its code has been used in
Word2Txt.exe too.
2022-01-16
• Both
Word2Txt.exe and
Docx2Txt.exe have been updated:
- better handling of paragraphs, list items and headers
- now capable of handling OpenOffice .ODT files, with or without Word
- more output encoding options
2022-01-14
•
Word2Txt.exe is a new program, combining a stripped down version of
Word2Any.exe, and
Doc2Txt.exe and
Docx2Txt.exe.
If Word is available, the program will use Word to extract plain text from the specified document (which may have any format recognized by Word), if Word isn't available it will use one of the alternative approaches for .DOC and .DOCX files only.
2022-01-12
•
Doc2Txt.exe is a new program to extract the unformated text from a .DOC Word file, without requiring Word.
From the outside, it looks similar to
Docx2Txt.exe, but the different Word file formats .DOC and .DOCX require completely different approaches.
Docx2Txt reads a .DOCX file as a ZIP file containing the text file, whereas Doc2Txt treats .DOC files more or less as "garbled text", using regular expressions to extract only the required plain text.
2022-01-10
• I added a PowerShell snippet I'm rather proud of:
Calculate Easter date for any year in 6 lines of code (plus several more for comments, parameter handling and presentation of results; most relevant lines are 3, 4, 11, 13, 15 and 17).
I have seen many pieces of code, including my own
Easter.bat, that most people, including myself, will never understand, but I hope this PowerShell code
does make some sense
2022-01-09
•
Docx2Txt.exe is a new program to extract the unformated text from a .DOCX Word file, without requiring Word.
It treats the Word file as a ZIP file (this works with .DOCX format but
not with .DOC), reads the content of Word\document.xml, and removes the XML tags.
2022-01-04
•
Word2OpenOffice.exe is a simple console program to convert Word documents (.doc and .docx only) to OpenOffice (.odt) format.
It is basically a stripped down version of
Word2Any.exe, with limited input formats and a single output format.
2022-01-03
• Oops, a bug in
GetSystemInformation.exe was fixed: it still accepts wildcards, but the specified argument must now match the
complete property name, not just part of it (e.g.
GetSystemInformation.exe window* will no longer return a match, while the previous version did return
ActiveWindowTrackingDelay,
DragFullWindows,
PenWindows, etc.).
2022-01-02
2022-01-01
• I wish you all a happy and healthy new year.
page last uploaded: 2022-01-18, 10:18
