antiword

Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents

v1.3.5 · Feb 26, 2026 · GPL-2

Description

Wraps the 'AntiWord' utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents. The utility only supports the old 'doc' format, not the new xml based 'docx' format. Use the 'xml2' package to read the latter.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	OK	24.8s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	40.3s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	48.6s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	66s
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	OK	24s
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	OK	115s
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	OK	73s
r-patched-linux-x86_64	OK	28.9s
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

10 tracked

new 1.3.5 Mar 10, 2026

updated 1.3.5 ← 1.3.4 diff Feb 26, 2026

updated 1.3.4 ← 1.3.3 diff Oct 3, 2024

updated 1.3.3 ← 1.3.2 diff Jan 29, 2024

updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Jan 17, 2024

updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3 diff Mar 20, 2022

updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Nov 8, 2018

updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Oct 6, 2018

updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Apr 28, 2017

new 1.0 Apr 21, 2017