python convert microsoft office docs to plain text on linux

Question

Any recomendations on a method to convert .doc, .ppt, and .xls to plain text on linux using python? Really any method of conversion would be useful. I have already looked at

Answer 1

You can access OpenOffice via Python API.

Try using this as a base: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Odt2txt.py