Extract structured data from many MS Word files

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I have ~160 MS Word files that contain structured data. The data is formatted identically across all files and resides in a tabular format.

I'd like to extract the data into a database, XML or just an aggregate table without opening each of the files independently.

Is there a tool or method I can use to extract this data?

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