Antiword: a free MS Word document reader
This repo is a "fork" of the sources once found at http://www.winfield.demon.nl/. This website has been unavailable for several years, and to the best of my knowledge and search attempts no other location exists for the sources of antiword.
In this repo, old versions -- as far as I could go back -- were imported, and then some patchs that exist for antiword were applied.
The last state of the original antiword website can be found via the wayback engine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221207132720/http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. There are ports to FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus PDA, MorphOS, Tru64/OSF, Minix, Solaris and DOS. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript TM.
Microsoft® Word only exists on platforms supported by Microsoft itself. On other platforms, reading Microsoft® Word files is usually difficult, sometimes expensive and often impossible.
I am busy writing a Microsoft® Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. This Microsoft® Word reader is called Antiword for reasons explained in the documentation. Antiword is a work in progress and many features are still being developed. However, Antiword is usable on all but the most complex Word documents.
Text and software © 1998-2008 by Adri van Os. All rights reserved.