The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages.

There are, however, a few promising means for exchanging documents with Office 2007 users, or at least extracting pertinent data from said documents.

Typically, companies use optical character recognition (OCR) software to extract text and data from files like contracts, tax documents, expense reports or patient forms.