I often get content for sites in Word docs which I used to open in Pages. Getting the text out of pages involved far too much clicking, particularly if I was extracting a URL from text in a table. To save my wrists, I figured out the following:
catdoc file.doc | coda >> temp.txt
catdoc
converts the Word file into plain text, and outputs to STDIO. I pipe that into Coda using coda-cli
. For some odd reason, I need to provide the temp.txt
throw-away file, or Coda doesn’t respond. The result is a new tab in Coda with the contents of the Word document.
catdoc
and coda-cli
can be installed using Homebrew.