Quick and dirty convertion to HTML

Matt Lawrence matt.lawrence at virgin.net
Fri May 15 13:07:46 BST 2009


wvware may help with the Word documents.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/wvhtml

Matt


Michael Lush wrote:
>
> I'm writing a CGI text checking tool (on a CentOS server) I'd like to 
> allow users to upload Excel, Word and pdf files and have them 
> displayed as an HTML approximation.
>
> I've had a look at Spreadsheet::ParseExcel but I think a more 
> lightwieght solution is in order I don't need a sophisiticated 
> convertion, a few steps above running `strings` on the file would do 
> fine.
>
> -- 
> Michael
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> Bioinformatician HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee    Email: 
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> European Bioinformatics Institute
> Hinxton, Cambridge
> URL: http://www.genenames.org
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