Package catdoc: Information

CATDOC is program which reads MS-Word file and prints readable
ASCII text to stdout, just like Unix cat command.
It also able to produce correct escape sequences if some UNICODE
charachers have to be represented specially in your typesetting system
such as (La)TeX.

It features runtime configuration, proper charset handling,
user-definable output formats and support
for Word97 files, which contain UNICODE internally.

xls2csv reads MS-Excel spreadsheet and dumps its content as
comma-separated values to stdout.