dpkg:wv (wvWare)

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wv (formerly known as MSWordView) is a library that understands the Microsoft Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats and is able to convert Word documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser. It also allows other programs access to word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats and is currently being used by Abiword as its word importer.

wv compiles and works under most operating systems. Although most development is carried out with Linux, wv should work on BSD, Solaris, OS/2, AIX, OSF1, and even (with varying levels of success) AmigaOS VMS. The GnuWin32 project maintains a port for Windows, and it is required to compile and work on all of AbiWord's supported platforms.

Source

http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

Related Urls

http://freshmeat.net/projects/wv/

http://www.wvWare.com/

wv Utilities

Provided with the wv distribution is an application called wvWare. wvWare is a "power-user" application with lots of command-line options, doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient, are the helper scripts that use wvWare. These are:

wvHtml: convert your Word document into HTML4.0
wvLatex: convert your Word document into visually (pretty) correct LaTeX
wvCleanLatex: convert into 'cleaner' LaTeX containing less visual mark-up, more suitable for further use and LyX import. Work in progress
wvDVI: converts word to DVI. Requires 'latex'
wvPS: converts word to PostScript. Requires 'dvips'
wvPDF: converts word to Adobe PDF. Requires 'distill' from Adobe [Someone do a pdflatex or pdfhtml version :-)]
wvText: converts word to plain text. Textually correct output requires 'lynx.' For poor output, this doesn't require anything special.
wvAbw: converts word to Abiword format. (Far better just to use Abiword.)
wvWml: converts word to WML for viewing on portable devices like WebPhones and Palm Pilots.
wvRtf: a basic version exists
wvMime: can be plugged as a MIME helper application into your browser/mail client; presents the document on-screen inside GhostView, while all intermediate files generated go into the /tmp directory.