I have a little shell script which tries to do basically this: https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8ac788 https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8

I have a little shell script which tries to do basically this: https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8ac788 https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8ac788 It tries either abiword or OpenOffice/LibreOffice for filetypes other than pdf, ps, and txt, which works pretty decently for doc, docx, ppt, etc. One file type here that textract folks might want to add is Postscript.