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Author: Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de), last update: March 3, 2011

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
(external links!)
rtf2latex2e
by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl (free)
2-0-1 (Feb. 1, 2011)		 convert from RTF
  • detects text style: bold, italic, color, big, small,...
  • reads embedded figures: PICT, EMF, GIF, TIFF, WMF, PNG, JPEG
  • reads tables: simple to semi-complex
  • reads Equation Editor or MathType equations
  • converts most greek and math symbols
  • reads footnotes
  • converted latex file uses utf8
  • supports codepages 1250, 1251, 1252, 1254, mac, NeXt
  • translates hyperlinks using the hyperref package
all kinds of Unix
DOS, MS Windows		 CTAN:
.../support/rtf2latex2e
for most recent version see
sourceforge.net/ projects/rtf2latex2e/
wsW2LTXGUI
by Ingo H. de Boer
1.1.0.0 (May 25, 2006)		 The wsW2LTXGUI program is a graphical user interface to the wsW2LTX library which handles all the methods described in the wsW2LTX API reference.
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. 		MS Windows CTAN:
.../support/word2latex
homepage: www.winshell.de/ modules/w2ltx_download/
wp2latex
by J. Fojtik (free)
3.53 (Sep. 19, 2010)		 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		 CTAN:
.../support/wp2latex (older version 3.38)
for most recent version see www.penguin.cz/ ~fojtik/wp2latex/ wp2latex.htm
Word2TeX
Chikrii Softlab. shareware, 99$ (45$ academic)
version 5.01 (Feb. 2010)		 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 98 + Word for Windows 95, or newer required homepage:
www.word2tex.com
Word-to-LaTeX
Michal Kebrt (Shareware, 79 $)
version 2.0 (Jan 2011)		 save as LaTeX from within Word
converts:
  • equations (conversion to TeX code requires MathType, otherwise they are converted to png or eps)
  • raster images
  • tables
  • lists
  • footnotes and endnotes
  • bookmarks
  • and more (see homepage)
 MS Windows + Word for Windows 2002 (XP) or newer required, plus MS .NET Framework 2.0 Homepage:
www.wordtolatex.com
Writer2LaTeX
converts OpenOffice.org / StarOfficeWriter documents into LaTeX2e (free).
1.0.0 (Sept. 21, 2009)		 The current version deals with plain text and formulas.
It is included as export filter in OpenOffice 2.04 and later
 all OS supporting Java homepage:
writer2latex.sourceforge.net/
Calc2LaTeX
converts OpenOffice.org spreadsheet tables into LaTeX2e (free)
0.2.4 (Oct. 29, 2005)		 Calc2LaTeX is an OpenOffice.org Calc (Spreadsheet) macro for converting tables. Linux or MS Windows plus Open Office 1.03, 1.1 or 2.0 homepage:
calc2latex.sourceforge.net/
Excel2LaTeX
converts Excel spreadsheet to LaTeX
2.1 (Sept. 18, 2008)		 Excel-macro to convert Excel to LaTeX. The generated LaTeX code uses the tabular environment. MS Windows plus MS Excel CTAN:
www.ctan.org/tex-archive/ support/excel2latex/
Gnumeric can import Excel data and export to LaTeX Gnumeric is an open source spreadsheet application which can import Excel data and export to LaTeX Linux or MS Windows homepage:
www.gnome.org/ projects/gnumeric/
Publishing Companion
KTalk Communications (commercial, 399 US$)
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 homepage:
www.ktalk.com/ pubcomp.html

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