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Install Microsoft Word on Ubuntu

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Posted about 6 years ago

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Install a licensed copy of Microsoft Word on an AWS Ubuntu instance and configure it with a PHP wrapper so that the Word program can be called by another program with some files that are in docx format and will return those file in txt format. The solution may involve using Wine and/or Crossover, but I am open to suggestions on this. I do not want to use Libreoffice/ unoconv or similar for the conversion process. The solution must operate fully automatically, without any human involvement, and fail gracefully if there is a problem with the Word conversion.
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MS Word does not have a true headless mode , but using wine and Win32::OLE in a Perl script you could do something provided you could account for all possible issues that could arise. For instance, if a docx file requires a password to open the process would hang waiting for the user to enter a password and not quit gracefully with out additional work to detect a hung situation. Since your outputting as unformatted plain text, .docx files are simply a zipped file with the text encapsulated in XML. You could unzip and strip all the extraneous XML easily with a shell script much quicker and easier than running an instance of Word without having to mess with wine+word or additional programs. Open a chat with me if you think I could help! _____________________ Edit: I created a small shell script to do this and tested with a word document with some random formatted rich and colored text: [root@vm secured]# ./docxTotxt [login to view URL] Testing…. Some random text… Blah… Project Description Install a licensed copy of Microsoft Word ... [root@vm secured]# _________________________________ You really don't need anything more than unzip and a standard unix text parsing utility that's always installed on Linux systems.
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Good day! I can help you to install Microsoft Word on your AWS Ubuntu instance and configure it according to your requirements. For the last 10 years I was working as a senior system admin at hosting services provider where managed more than 300 various Linux/Apache servers. I can help you too. Please, contact me to discuss the details.
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Hello Hope you are doing well . I have 6 years of experience in Ubuntu server administration . I will install MS Word on Ubuntu with the help of Wine . Regards *Vishnu
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Hi! Nice to meet you. My name is Maksim. I am CEO at TYMAX. Located in Zhitomir, Ukraine (EET UTC+02:00). We have experience with such technologies as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. I will be happy to discuss all technical details at a short meeting with you about the project. Will it work for you? Regards Maksim
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Hello !! We go through your requirement you needed Wordpress developer and we are appropriate for this job. Our main working domain is web development. We can help you with following technologies- Php. Web Technologies - HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, XML, JSON, Web Services, Soap, Rest Services . CMS / Frameworks - Wordpress,Laravel,CodeIgniter, CakePHP , OpenCart, Magento. I am able to start your work from right at the moment and finish it ASAP; I believe only in client satisfaction and assure you that you will definitely satisfy with my work. We are available more than 18 hours a day. "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success." Happy Working! Thanks for considering me for this job. Waiting for your reply. Thanks & Regards!! Sonu
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I’ve done many things like this already have most of it set up. Price is negotiable
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