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Author: Wilfried Hennings (W.Hennings "at" fz-juelich.de), Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Jülich GmbH
last update: March 11, 2004

NOTE: This table is still under construction. I only had time to include the most recent converters.

Program
Author(s)
referred version
Features supported Systems where on CTAN
rtf2latex2e
by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl (free)
1.0 fc2 (May 18, 2001)
convert from RTF
  • detects text style: bold, italic, color, big, small,...
  • reads embedded figures: PICT, WMF, PNG, JPEG,...
  • reads tables: simple to semi-complex
  • equations: reads out Equation Editor equations
  • symbols: converts most greek and math symbols
  • reads footnotes
  • support for use of the fontenc package
  • translates hyperlinks using the hyperref package
all kinds of Unix
DOS, MS Windows
.../support/rtf2latex2e
for most recent version see sourceforge.net/ projects/rtf2latex2e/
wp2latex
by J. Fojtik (free)
3.12 (Feb. 28, 2004)
convert from WordPerfect 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6/7/8.x document files
converts (among others):
  • Equations
  • Tables
  • Footnotes, Endnotes, Cross-references
  • Superscript, Subscript
  • Extended characters (foreign language/accented, math, Greek - not linedrawing)
Linux
DOS, MS Windows
.../support/wp2latex (older version 2.111)
for most recent version see www.penguin.cz/~fojtik/ wp2latex/wp2latex.htm
Word2TeX
Chikrii Softlab. shareware, 99$ (45$ academic)
version 3.0 (March 2003)
save as LaTeX from within Word
converts:
  • Equation Editor 2.x-3.x, Design Science MathType 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 3.5, 4.0 embedded objects (*)
  • figures (to EPS or PDF)(*)
  • tables (even very complicated) (*)
  • footnotes
  • endnotes (to bibliography)
  • index
  • cross-references
  • paragraph styles (heading1 to heading4, custom styles)
  • character attributes
  • Greek-charset
  • multibyte character encodings (Unicode)
  • and many more (see homepage)
(*) some restrictions will apply in unregistered Word2TeX
MS Windows + Word 6, 7(95), 8(97), 9(2000) or 10(XP) required www.word2tex.com
Writer2LaTeX
converts OpenOffice.org / StarOffice 6 Writer documents into LaTeX2e (free)
v. 0.3.3a, Feb. 20, 2004
The current version deals with plain text and formulas.
3rd alpha test release of version 0.2 is available - now working as an export filter in OpenOffice.org and includes an experimental Writer to XHMTL+MathML converter.
all OS supporting Java http://www.hj-gym.dk/ ~hj/writer2latex/
Publishing Companion
KTalk Communications (commercial, 399 US$)
v. 2.21
converts (among others):
  • Automatic Indexes
  • Footnotes, Endnotes
  • Foreign Characters
  • Running Headers & Footers
  • Superscripts & Subscripts
  • MathEdit Math Equations
  • MS Word 6.0 Math Equations
  • WordPerfect Math Equations
DOS / MS Windows www.ktalk.com/ pubcomp.html

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