fodt2txt

Simple program to read a LibreOffice .fodt file and dump out its text, analogous to what odt2txt does for .odt.

I wrote this primarily to be able to get reasonable diffs of .fodt files from a git diff command without displaying extraneous XML tags. It's not perfect, but is good enough for my needs.

This program is licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0.

usage (command line):

fodt2txt document.fodt

To use in git:

1. add the following line to the .gitattributes file:

*.fodt diff=fodt

2. add the following lines to the git/config file:

[diff "fodt"]
    textconv = fodt2txt

Any text found inside <text:p> tags is simply dumped to stdout.

Bare-bones, almost no diagnostic messages.

Deficiencies:

Does not catch format changes like italics or bold; nor things like tab characters. I may look into doing this sometime in the future.