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Author: Wilfried Hennings (W.Hennings "at" fz-juelich.de), Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Jülich GmbH
last update of this page on 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 to get
TeX2Word
Chikrii Softlab. shareware, 99$ (45$ academic)
2.0
load TeX file from within Word. Needs Word95 or later (97, 2000, XP) Windows 95, NT4 or later (ME, 2000, XP) www.tex2word.com
TeX4ht (free) invokes TeX to convert to html+stylesheet which can be loaded into Word; converts equations to either bitmaps or MathML DOS, MS Windows, all kinds of Unix www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ ~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html
latex2rtf (free)
Scott Prahl
v. 1.9.15, Feb. 9, 2004
LaTeX-to-RTF-converter.
conversion of most equation elements to formula fields (or images, which requires any TeX, ImageMagick, and Ghostscript)
DOS, MS Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP, Macintosh, all kinds of Unix CTAN: directory .../support/latex2rtf;
for most recent versions and development see the project on sourceforge.net
ltx2rtf (free)
Daniel Taupin
v. 5-5, 28. Dec 2001
LaTeX-to-RTF-converter.
Equations are converted to bitmaps, needs emTeX and Ghostscript
Nearly all features now merged into latex2rtf (see above)
DOS, Linux (other kinds of Unix?) see "homeserver" (connection to this server is only possible with MS IE and most ftp clients, not with Netscape or Opera)
tool for converting APA-format LaTeX files (free) pre-process the LaTeX file before handing it over to ltx2rtf Linux psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/ misc_software.html#ltxapa2rtf
TexPort
KTalk Communications (commercial, 1499 US$)
v. 2.5
LaTeX-to-WordPerfect (and Microsoft Word) converter. Converts (among others):
  • Equations
  • Greek, math, scientific characters
  • Indexes
  • Footnotes, Endnotes
  • Simple tables
  • Itemize and Bib Item
  • \def and \newcommand
  • Framebox, fbox, makebox and mbox commands
MS Windows www.ktalk.com/texport.html

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