Readme for doc2html External converter scripts for ht://Dig (version 3.1.4 and later), that convert Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, and PDF, PostScript, RTF, and WordPerfect files to text (in HTML form) so they can be indexed. Uses a variety of conversion programs: wp2html - to convert Wordperfect and Word7 & 97 documents to HTML catdoc - to extract text from Word documents catwpd - to extract text from WordPerfect documents [alternative to wp2html] rtf2html - to convert RTF documents to HTML pdftotext - to extract text from Adobe PDFs ps2ascii - to extract text from PostScript pptHtml - to convert Powerpoint files to HTML xlHtml - to convert Excel spreadsheets to HTML xls2csv - to extract data from Excel spreadsheets [alternative to xlHtml] swfparse - to extract links from Shockwave flash files. The main script, doc2html.pl, is easily edited to include the available utlitities, and new utilities are easily incorporated. Written by David Adams (University of Southampton), and based on the conv_doc.pl script by Gilles Detillieux. For more information see the DETAILS file.