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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• odt2txt

Projektgeschichte

The project predates its GitHub repository. A Debian ITP thread from January 2007 identified odt2txt 0.2, Dennis Stosberg as upstream author, GPL-2 licensing, C as the implementation language, and the package description as a simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text.

The GitHub repository, created on November 29, 2013, preserves the tool's focused design. The README says odt2txt extracts text from OpenDocument Text files produced by LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice, and others, and can also handle related formats such as OpenOffice.org XML, plus limited extraction from ODS and ODP.

Adoptionsgeschichte

odt2txt's adoption path is classic distribution packaging. The input metadata lists packages for Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE, which fits a small utility used by scripts and distributions rather than by a branded developer platform.

The Debian packaging request from 2007 emphasized small size, speed, many encodings, and locale adaptation. Those are exactly the properties that make a document converter attractive to Unix pipelines and package maintainers.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `odt2txt` to extract document text for search indexing, diffing, grep-style inspection, backup audits, mail or web previews, and batch conversion where opening a full office suite is too heavy.

The README highlights practical portability: the tool supports multiple output encodings, adapts to the user's locale, substitutes common characters with ASCII lookalikes when needed, is written in C, has few dependencies, and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSDs, Cygwin, Solaris, and HP-UX.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, odt2txt is a durable example of a small format utility that survives because office documents are zip-and-XML bundles but users often need plain text. Its value is not novelty; it is predictable behavior, minimal dependencies, and packaging reach.

The package also records a bit of office-suite history: it names OpenOffice.org XML, StarOffice, KOffice, LibreOffice, and OpenDocument, tying modern ODT extraction back to pre-LibreOffice document formats.

Zeitleiste

• January 2007: Debian's ITP listed odt2txt 0.2 and described it as a GPL-2 C utility for extracting text from OpenDocument Text files.
• June 23, 2008: The man page version referenced odt2txt 0.5.
• November 29, 2013: The GitHub repository was created, likely as a migrated or mirrored home for an older upstream project.
• By July 1, 2026: Package metadata listed odt2txt across major Unix-like package managers.

Related projects

• odt2txt is related to LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice, OpenDocument, and other document-conversion utilities such as antiword, catdoc, pandoc, and text extraction tools used in search indexes.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/dstosberg/odt2txt
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/odt2txt
• https://github.com/dstosberg/odt2txt
• https://github.com/dstosberg/odt2txt/blob/master/odt2txt.1
• https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.devel/c/anM5ZxpnB6I
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/odt2txt/odt2txt.1.en