Corpora: MS Word to text

Marco Antonio Esteves da Rocha (marcor@cce.ufsc.br)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:25:55 -0500 (CDT)

Dear all,
Someone has collected a sizable corpus of literary works and documents
written in Brazilian Portuguese throughout the nineteenth century. It is a
valuable asset for us here and it is been all typed in MS Word, thus it is
impossible to use all those software resources you all know. Does anyone
know about a way to transform these .doc files into ASCII text files
without having to do that one by one ? If you feel tempted to suggest
sitting on the curb and crying, please don't.
Marco Rocha
marcor@cce.ufsc.br