I am familiar with packages that read and write Excel files on both Windows
and Linux platforms.

Do any packages provide similar functionality for MS Word files? I have a
lot of text processing to do and the text is embedded in ~200 different Word
files (.doc format Office 2003). All I need to do is read, not write.

Thanks,
Mark
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