I was wondering if anyone has had success converting .doc files and .pdfs into HTML. Obviously we are not thrilled with Word's "Save as Web Page..." option and we'd prefer to automate the process, rather than having someone hand code everything from scratch. If we have to review it, and make edits that's fine, but something that spits out a good approximation of clean valid XHTML would be great.

A secondary question would be, is that how you store information for web retrieval for a corporate intranet and similar applications?


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You know, you *can* "script" MS Word.

In VBScript code (either in ASP or standalone) you can do
     Set word = Server.CreateObject("Word.Application")
and then use that object reference to access properties and methods of Word, just as you would do using VBS within Word.

So you *could* use that to load up a ".doc" file and then do a "save as" to HTML. Thus, as you said, automating the process.

It's not great (I'm given to understatement) but it can work. Not my cup of tea, but I've had friends who have done it.

As for PDF: There's a product called "AspPdf" out there that will allow you to manipulate PDF files via ASP or ASP.NET and I *think* that it will allow a "save as" to HTML, as well. You could google them to see.

Thanks for the tips!

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