Sometimes I want to extract text from MS Word documents or PDFs. The former can be done with abiword and the like, and the latter with pdftotext, which comes with xpdf, for example. But when it comes to Ichitaro, there are not many tools available.
In the end, there seem to be only a product from the Data Conversion Laboratory or xdoc2txt. The latter is for Windows, so to run it on Linux, the former is the only option. But it costs several hundred thousand yen, so it would be fine for a company but impossible for an individual…
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