Antiword

Antiword is Article description::a program for displaying legacy Microsoft Word documents in common use from MS Word 97 – 2007 as plain text. Typically, antiword is used to display MS Word documents in a terminal window often in combination with standard Linux tools such as  and. Additionally, it has the ability to extract images from MS Word documents and save them to disk.

Limitations

 * While quite usable Antiword is far from complete and cannot render complex layouts or obscure formatting to a text terminal without compromise.
 * Antiword predates Microsoft Office XML formats and therefore lacks support for the file format entirely.