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How to retrieve text from Windows Office 2007 Word docs
Authored by: ctierney on Fri, Dec 8 2006 at 11:45AM PST

Here's a droplet that'll extract plain text to the clipboard:

on open this_item
   set docxPath to POSIX path of this_item
   try
      do shell script "unzip -p " & docxPath & " word/document.xml | perl -pe 's/<[^>]+>|[^[:print:]]+//g' | pbcopy"
   end try
end open

on run
   display dialog "Drop a docx file on this applescript and it's plain text contents will be copied to the clipboard." buttons {"Ok"} giving up after 10 default button 1
end run