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Linux.com did a story on Docvert,

I tested DocVert on old Word Doc files from emails and miscellaneous files from HR departments (none of my real co-workers have sent me a .doc file in years). I wasn’t able to trip it up
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it is exactly those elements that cause most Word Doc to HTML converters to produce such horrifyingly-bad HTML output. DocVert, in contrast, converts the document to an intermediary format that preserves its overall structure: headings, relative positioning, indentation, and so forth. It then uses XSLT to transform between the intermediary format and the selected final output, in a clean and predictable way.

Read more of Nathan Willis’s article at Linux.com.

Docvert converts Office files to DocBook and HTML. This is the second release of the Python rewrite of Docvert.

Version 5.1 comes with improved list handling, unit test coverage, an easier UI, and finally feature parity with Docvert 4.0 (for conversions).

Download here.