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Antiword

Wraps the antiword utility. Takes a path to an word file and returns text from the document.

antiword(file = NULL, format = FALSE)

`file`	path or url to your word file
`format`	format the output text (-f parameter)

text <- antiword("https://jeroen.github.io/files/UDHR-english.doc")
cat(text)

Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents

v1.3

GPL-2

Authors

Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>), Adri van Os [cph] (Author 'antiword' utility)

Initial release

antiword