This is a program for viewing RTF and MS Word 97 documents.  It produces
plain text output and can optionally convert some non-standard characters
into TeX control sequences.  It has rudimentary table handling in TeX
mode.  Also included are:
- wordview, a small GUI frontend to catdoc that works with Tcl/Tk 7.6 and up;
- xls2csv, which converts Excel spreadsheets to plain text files with CSV
  (comma-separated value) lines; and
- catppt, which extracts text from PowerPoint files.

WWW: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/