NAME

       odt2txt - a simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

SYNOPSIS

       odt2txt [OPTIONS] FILENAME

DESCRIPTION

       odt2txt  is  a  command-line  tool  which  extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts, as
       produced by OpenOffice.org, KOffice, StarOffice and others.

       odt2txt can also extract text from some file formats similar to OpenDocument Text, such as
       OpenOffice.org  XML  (*.sxw),  which  was  used  by  OpenOffice.org  version 1.x and older
       StarOffice versions.  To a lesser extend, odt2txt may be useful to  extract  content  from
       OpenDocument spreadsheets (*.ods) and OpenDocument presentations (*.odp).

       The FILENAME argument is mandatory.

OPTIONS

       --width=WIDTH
              Wrap  text  lines after WIDTH characters. The default value is 65, which means that
              any words which would extend beyond column 65 are moved to a new line.

              If WIDTH is set to -1 then no lines will be broken

       --output=FILE
              Write output to FILE and not to standard output.

       --subst=SUBST
              Select which non-ascii characters shall be replaced by  ascii  look-a-likes.  Valid
              values for SUBST are all, some and none.

              --subst=all Substitute all characters for which substitutions are known

              --subst=some  Substitute  all  characters which the output charset does not contain
              This is the default

              --subst=none Substitute no characters

       --encoding=X
              Do not try to autodetect  the  terminal  encoding,  but  convert  the  document  to
              encoding  X  unconditionally  To  find out, which terminal encoding will be used in
              automatic mode, use --encoding=show

       --raw  Print raw XML

       --version
              Show version and copyright information

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2006,2007 Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
       Uses parts of the kunzip library, Copyright 2005,2006 by Michael Kohn

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License, version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation

SEE ALSO

       Homepage
              http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/