The QuickLook backend is really convenient for having a parser to turn everything into HTML (and therefore text). I wrote an AppleScript to convert DOCX or PPT

The QuickLook backend is really convenient for having a parser to turn everything into HTML (and therefore text). I wrote an AppleScript to convert DOCX or PPTX to TXT using qlmanage -p | textutil Using QuickLook to turn anything to HTML: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100712090451517 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2010071209045151... Using textutil to convert HTML to TXT: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32621215 https://stackoverflow.com/a/32621215 AppleScript source code: https://pastebin.com/JRbXTv8d https://pastebin.com/JRbXTv8d