How to convert .doc or .docx files to .txt

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Published on 2010-04-25T20:55:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 21:03 UTC
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I'm wondering how you can convert Word .doc/.docx files to text files through Java. I understand that there's an option where I can do this through Word itself but I would like to be able to do something like this:

java DocConvert somedocfile.doc converted.txt

Thanks.

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