Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

On 04/07/2022 17:59, Ian Bertram wrote:
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> I have been sent a graphic heavy document in ODT format. However it looks as if it has been badly 
> converted from a pdf file. The layout is scrambled, headers don’t align properly and there are a 
> host of other issues. It is also in columns. Is there a simple way to strip out everything bar the 
> words? I have tried saving it as a txt file, but this loses a lot of the paragraph numbering and 
> introduces other layout issues. Saving in rtf format is even worse.

You might try this.

Open the odt with an archive manager - it's just a zip file. Extract 
content.xml, then run this perl program, which will extract the text 
from that:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

my $filename = 'content.xml';

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
binmode(STDERR, ":utf8");

my $dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => $filename) or die "open?\n";

foreach my $para 
($dom->findnodes('/office:document-content/office:body/office:text/text:p')) 
{
        my $b = $para->to_literal;
        print $b, "\n";
}


Works for me but YMMV. BEWARE email line wrap in the 'foreach' line. The 
single line should say foreach ....... p')) {



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Harlow Essex England
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