Hi, I have an archive of relatively simple MS Word documents and would like to read them into Lisp, process them and save into a database. Has somebody implemented an import of a MS Word document? I'm really thankful for any answer. Kind Regards, Lukas
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:46:22 +0100, Lukas Trejtnar <l.trejtnar@open.ac.uk> wrote: > I have an archive of relatively simple MS Word documents and would > like to read them into Lisp, process them and save into a > database. Has somebody implemented an import of a MS Word document? > I'm really thankful for any answer. I doubt that anybody has (in Lisp). This is a rather heavy task and AFAIK the Word format itself is proprietary and not documented by Microsoft. One option might be to use an external program/library like wvWare[1]. Another option would be to convert the Word documents to RTF and write a Lisp parser for that. That should be straightforward albeit tedious. I almost did that some months ago but the project fortunately went into another direction. Apart from the official RTF documents this cheap little book is very helpful: <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtfpg/index.html> HTH, Edi. [1] <http://wvware.sourceforge.net/>
On 13.9.2004, at 18:46, Lukas Trejtnar wrote: > I have an archive of relatively simple MS Word > documents and would like > to read them into Lisp, process them and save into a > database. Has > somebody implemented an import of a MS Word document? > I'm really > thankful for any answer. > It should be relatively easy to connect to Word through its COM interface by means of the LispWork's COM/Automation API. Michal