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<html lang="en-us"><head><title>PC -&gt; LaTeX Converter Quick Comparison List</title></head>
<body>
<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage (external link)</a><br>
Up to <a href="pctotex.html">Converters from PC
Textprocessors to LaTeX -
Overview</a></p>
<h1>PC -&gt; LaTeX Converter Quick Comparison List</h1>
<p><strong>Switch conversion direction: <a href="tx2pctbl.html">From LaTeX to
PC</a></strong></p>
<p>Author: Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de), last
update: March 3, 2011</p>
<p>NOTE: This table is still under construction. I only had time
to include the most recent converters.</p>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th width="18%">Program<br>
Author(s)<br>
referred version</th>
<th width="40%">Features</th>
<th width="20%">supported Systems</th>
<th width="190">where to get<br>
(external links!)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">rtf2latex2e
<br>
by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl (free)<br>2-0-1 (Feb. 1, 2011)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">convert
from RTF
<ul>
<li> detects text style: bold, italic, color, big,
small,... </li>
<li> reads embedded figures: PICT, EMF, GIF, TIFF, WMF, PNG, JPEG </li>
<li> reads tables: simple to semi-complex </li>
<li>reads Equation Editor or MathType equations</li>
<li>converts most greek and math symbols </li>
<li> reads footnotes</li>
<li>converted latex file uses utf8<br></li><li>supports codepages 1250, 1251, 1252, 1254, mac, NeXt </li>
<li> translates hyperlinks using the hyperref package </li>
</ul>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">all
kinds of Unix <br>
DOS, MS Windows</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">CTAN:<br>
.../support/rtf2latex2e <br>
for most recent version see <br>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtf2latex2e/">sourceforge.net/
projects/rtf2latex2e/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">wsW2LTXGUI<br>
by Ingo H. de Boer<br>
1.1.0.0 (May 25, 2006)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">The
wsW2LTXGUI program is a graphical user interface to the wsW2LTX library
which handles all the methods described in the wsW2LTX API reference.<br>
The wsW2LTX library is an application programming interface (API)
designed to translate a MS Word document to LaTeX. The library is based
on libwv and on several other (mostly Unix based) libraries. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">MS
Windows</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">CTAN:<br>
.../support/word2latex<br>
homepage: <a href="http://www.winshell.de/modules/w2ltx_download/">www.winshell.de/
modules/w2ltx_download/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">wp2latex
<br>
by J. Fojtik (free)<br>
3.53 (Sep. 19, 2010)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">convert
from WordPerfect 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6/7/8.x document files <br>
converts (among others):
<ul>
<li>Equations</li>
<li>Tables </li>
<li>Footnotes, Endnotes, Cross-references</li>
<li>Superscript, Subscript</li>
<li>Extended characters (foreign language/accented, math,
Greek - not linedrawing)</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">Linux<br>
DOS, MS Windows</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">CTAN:<br>
.../support/wp2latex
(older version 3.38)<br>
for most recent version see <a href="http://www.penguin.cz/%7Efojtik/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm">www.penguin.cz/
~fojtik/wp2latex/ wp2latex.htm</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Word2TeX<br>
Chikrii Softlab. shareware, 99$ (45$ academic)<br>
version 5.01 (Feb. 2010)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">save
as LaTeX from within Word<br>
converts:
<ul>
<li>Equation Editor 2.x-3.x, Design Science MathType 1.x,
2.x, 3.x, 3.5, 4.0 embedded objects (*)</li>
<li>figures (to EPS or PDF)(*)</li>
<li>tables (even very complicated) (*)</li>
<li>footnotes</li>
<li>endnotes (to bibliography)</li>
<li>index</li>
<li>cross-references</li>
<li>paragraph styles (heading1 to heading4, custom styles)</li>
<li>character attributes</li>
<li>Greek-charset</li>
<li>multibyte character encodings (Unicode)</li>
<li>and many more (see <a href="http://www.word2tex.com/">homepage</a>)</li>
</ul>
(*) some restrictions will apply in unregistered Word2TeX</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">MS
Windows 98 + Word for Windows&nbsp;95, or newer required</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">homepage:<br>
<a href="http://www.word2tex.com/">www.word2tex.com</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">Word-to-LaTeX<br>
Michal Kebrt (Shareware, 79&nbsp;$)<br>version 2.0 (Jan 2011)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">save as LaTeX
from within Word<br>
converts:
<ul>
<li>equations (conversion to TeX code requires MathType,
otherwise they are converted to png or eps)</li>
<li>raster images</li>
<li>tables</li>
<li>lists</li>
<li>footnotes and endnotes</li>
<li>bookmarks</li>
<li>and more (see <a href="http://www.wordtolatex.com/">homepage</a>)</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">MS Windows +
Word for Windows 2002 (XP) or newer required, plus MS .NET Framework 2.0</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Homepage: <br>
<a href="http://www.wordtolatex.com/">www.wordtolatex.com</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Writer2LaTeX<br>
converts OpenOffice.org / StarOfficeWriter documents into LaTeX2e
(free).<br>1.0.0 (Sept. 21, 2009)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">The
current version deals with plain text and formulas. <br>
It is included as export filter in OpenOffice 2.04 and later<br>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">all
OS supporting Java </td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">homepage:<br>
<a href="http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/">writer2latex.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Calc2LaTeX<br>
converts OpenOffice.org spreadsheet tables into LaTeX2e (free)<br>0.2.4 (Oct. 29, 2005)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">Calc2LaTeX
is an OpenOffice.org Calc (Spreadsheet) macro for converting tables.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">Linux
or MS Windows plus Open Office 1.03, 1.1 or 2.0</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">homepage:<br>
<a href="http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/">calc2latex.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Excel2LaTeX<br>
converts Excel spreadsheet to LaTeX<br>2.1 (Sept. 18, 2008)</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">Excel-macro
to convert Excel to LaTeX. The generated LaTeX code uses the tabular
environment.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">MS
Windows plus MS Excel</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">CTAN:<br><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/excel2latex/">www.ctan.org/tex-archive/ support/excel2latex/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Gnumeric
can import Excel data and export to LaTeX</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">Gnumeric
is an open source
spreadsheet application which can import Excel data and export to LaTeX</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">Linux
or MS Windows</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">homepage:<br>
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/">www.gnome.org/
projects/gnumeric/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="18%">Publishing
Companion<br>
KTalk Communications (commercial, 399 US$)<br>
v. 2.21</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">converts
(among others):
<ul>
<li>Automatic Indexes</li>
<li>Footnotes, Endnotes</li>
<li>Foreign Characters</li>
<li>Running Headers &amp; Footers</li>
<li>Superscripts &amp; Subscripts</li>
<li>MathEdit Math Equations</li>
<li>MS Word 6.0 Math Equations</li>
<li>WordPerfect Math Equations</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">DOS
/ MS Windows</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="190">homepage:<br>
<a href="http://www.ktalk.com/pubcomp.html">
www.ktalk.com/
pubcomp.html</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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