NAME

MSWord::ToHTML

Take old or new format Word files and spit out extremely clean HTML.

NOTICE

Because of the PITA involved in processing Word files, I have punted most of the work to Abiword and tidy.

Which means that you must have the binary programs tidy and abiword installed.

SYNOPSIS

    {
        package My::Word::Converter;

        use strict;
        use warnings;
        use MSWord::ToHTML;

        my $converter = MSWord::ToHTML->new;
        my $doc = $converter->validate_file("/home/myself/my_excellent_writing.doc");
          # This returns an instance of MSWord::ToHTML::Doc
        my $docx = $converter->validate_file("/home/myself/my_excellent_notes.docx");
          # This returns an instance of MSWord::ToHTML::DocX

        my $writing_html = $doc->get_html;
          # This returns an instance of MSWord::ToHTML::HTML
        my $notes_html = $docx->get_html;
          # This returns an instance of MSWord::ToHTML::HTML

        my $text = $notes_html->content;
          # The text content of the file.
        my $text = $writing_html->content;
          # The text content of the file.

    }

METHODS

new

MSWord::ToHTML is a Moose class, so new is Moose's constructor.

validate_file

This gets you the only thing you need, which is an object ready to give you its HTML.

get_html

This is the other important method, that gives you an MSWord::ToHTML::HTML object that contains:

file

An IO::All::File object from the html file written to your temp directory. I haven't tested this on Windows, but the module attempts to be agnostic with regards to temporary directories.

Because of the type conversions involved, that file object stores its content in a scalarref, which is an IO::All::String object. To use it directly, use

  my $long_html_string = ${$notes_html->file};

content

This module does that dereferencing for you in this convenience method on MSWord::ToHTML::HTML.

  my $long_html_string = $notes_html->content;

images

A Path::Class::Dir containing all the images or static files associated with your html document, so that you can iterate over them and copy them to a destination of your choosing.

I used Path::Class::Dir instead of IO::All's directory methods because it's friendlier:

  my @image_files = $writing_html->images->children;

AUTHOR

Amiri Barksdale, <amiri@roosterpirates.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2012 the MSWord::ToHTML "AUTHOR" listed above.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

IO::All

IO::All::File

IO::All::String