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Here's a yad program I put together to convert various file types to text using multiple command line tools.

Supported formats:
abw (need - abiword or unoconv)
dbk (need - abiword or unoconv)
doc (need - antiword, abiword, calligraconverter, catdoc, unoconv, or wvText)
docx (need - abiword, docx2txt, pandoc, unoconv, or unzip)
epub (need - abiword, ebook-convert, epub2txt, mutool, pandoc, or unoconv)
html (need - abiword, elinks, html2txt, links, links2, lynx, unoconv, or w3m)
kwd (need - abiword or unoconv)
odp (need - odt2txt)
odt (need - abiword, odt2txt, pandoc, or unoconv)
pdf (need - abiword, pdftotext, or unoconv)
rtf (need - abiword, pandoc, Ted, unrtf, or unoconv)
sxw (need - abiword, odt2txt, or unoconv)
xml (need - abiword, elinks, links, links2, lynx, or unoconv)
zabw (need - abiword or unoconv)

All conversions are done in the background (no gui is loaded for the various programs). You can set your preferences in the gui for which program to use for which file type.

There is also a symlink installed called "any2txt" that you can run from the command line (no gui) to do your conversion to text. The input file isn't deleted and the output file will be the same as the input file with the extension txt instead.

0.2 bugfix is up

plinej wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:29 pm

epub (need - abiword, ebook-convert, epub2txt, mutool, pandoc, or unoconv)

Abiword can't convert epub files.

It's possible but you would need to
1) extract the epub container
2) reformat the resulting xml file into a single html file, which eventually - and hopefully - Abiword then can convert into txt

@MochiMoppel, thanks for the information. I'll look into that for the next release.

updated to 0.3, made some minor improvements

please check line number 85

0.4 is up