#!/path/to/perl.exe -w
# [email protected] @ 2009/7/8 (version according to date)
# use Object Linking Environment of MS to manupilation office 2003/2007 word file.

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use strict;

my $VERSION = "2009/07/08";
my $usage = 
    "Usage of Ver: $VERSION:
    perl ". __FILE__ . " /abstract/path/to/word.doc(x)\n";

if (!%ARGV){
    printf $usage;
    exit 1;
}

my $File = $ARGV[0];
my $FileLog = $File . ".txt";
my $argc = @ARGV;

my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit') or die "Couldn't run Word";
if (!$Word->Documents){
    print "Word->Documents is unavailable.\n";
    exit 1;
}

my $Doc = $Word->Documents->Open($File) or die "Cannot open file: $File.\n";
my ($object, $paragraph, $enum);

# the whold contents of this Office Word file (*.doc(x))
my @paras = ();

$enum = Win32::OLE::Enum->new($Doc->Paragraphs);

while(($object = $enum->Next)) {
    $paragraph = $object->Range->{Text};
    if (length($paragraph) < 2){
	next;
    }
    chomp($paragraph);
    $paragraph =~ s/\s//g;
    $paragraph =~ s/
+$//g;

    push(@paras, $paragraph);
}

$Doc->Close;
my $paras_count = @paras;
if($paras_count){
    open FILELOG, ">$FileLog" or die "Cannot open log file: $FileLog\n";
    foreach my $para (@paras){
	print FILELOG $para, "\n";
    }
    close FILELOG;
    print "$File has been textlized to file $FileLog.\n";
}else{
    print "Sorry buddy, I tried hard but still can not parse this ms office word file.\n";
    print "But I records the text in to ", $FileLog, " for your reference.\n";
}

exit 0;

use Object Linking Environment of MS to manupilation office 2003/2007 word file.

Parse MS Office Word file using OLE in Perl.

Perl