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Digital Inspiration: Convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf, pdf to HTML: Brutally simple hack to get a ton of different document formats into HTML: send them to a GMail account as an attachment, then “View as HTML.”

GMail will show the following types of files as HTML: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .sxw, .sxc, .sxi, .sdw, .sdc, .sdd, and .wml. You can extend this trick to extract text from PDF documents (PDF to Txt) or Convert Adobe PDF documents to Word (PDF to Doc conversion). First convert the Document to HTML with Gmail and then open the HTML file in Microsoft Word and choose Save as .doc.

Via Lifehacker.

Deane | December 15, 2005
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I like the workaround for converting PDF documents to Word. That’s a good hack!

New York Document Scanning | September 20, 2006 3:12 AM

I wonder if the same appoach could be done using other types of free email accounts?

Document Scanning Services | October 20, 2006 4:48 PM

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