[wplug] Automate conversion from Excel to text in Linux

ehsiung at bellatlantic.net ehsiung at bellatlantic.net
Wed Feb 4 19:33:26 EST 2004


How about POI?  http://jakarta.apache.org/poi  
It's a Jakarta project that allows Java programs to read and create MS Word and 
Excel files. I've used it to generate xls files and it's very simple.


Eric 

On 4 Feb 2004 at 13:52, Scott Eicher wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have a script or have any suggestions on how to automate the
> conversion of an excel spreadsheet to plain text in Linux? I'd like to
> automate a process that we have where we use excel to convert a spreadsheet
> to text and then transfer the text file from the M$ system to a Linux box.
> We'd like to transfer the excel file, in binary, from the M$ system and then
> convert it on the Linux box rather than autmating the conversion on the M$
> side.
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
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