wv (software)
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Developer(s) | Caolán McNamara |
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Stable release | 1.2.4
/ October 25, 2006 |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Size | 615 KB |
License | GPL |
Website | http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ |
The software library wv, also known as wvware or by its previous name mswordview, is a set of free software programs licensed under the GNU General Public License which can be used for viewing and/or converting files in the Microsoft .doc format to plain text, LaTeX, HTML or other formats.
The wv library provides several tools on the command line of a Unix shell, such as wvText for converting a .doc file to a plain text file. It is used by the program abiword, which provides a GUI interface for reading .doc files.