antiword

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/

#! /usr/bin/bash
# [[rtf2txt]] Script to automatically convert word doc or rtf files to plain txt files
# Usage:
# Required: antiword
# apt-get antiword
#
# Authors:
# FR, radeff@akademia.ch
# History
# 2008.11.18: FR, created
#########
echo "Script to automatically convert word doc or rtf files to plain txt files"
echo "************"
WD=pwd
echo "Now converting all files under" .$WD
declare -i j
j=0
find . -name "*.doc" -o -name "*.rtf" -o -name "*.DOC" -o -name "*.RTF" | while read i
do
j=$j+1
echo "$j Converting wvText $i TO $i.txt"
antiword "$i" "$i.txt"

done
echo "************"
#echo "Finished, $k  files converted"
echo "Finished, all  files converted"