I have some HTML files that I need to distribute in MS Word doc format (don\'t ask!). I can manually open each in OpenOffice and then save as a doc file. But I have quite a few
Havn't tested but there is pyuno package to access OpenOffice API and following program show some ways to do like that.
ooextract.py
A command line tool, that extracts the text, html or pdf content from a StarWriter document and writes it to a different file or (optionally) prints it to stdout (grep your office documents).