in reply to Parsing an MS Word document
Is is absolutely essential that you parse MSWord documents?
How about MS Excel? Spreadsheet::ParseExcel provides some essential capabilities.
You might be able to mudge the Word documents into Excel by doing a 'Save As' from Word to Excel... However I'm not certain as to the scope of your project if such a thing would be possible.
A quick trollop through CPAN yielded no hits for 'Word' or 'MSWord' so you might consider a life of fame and fortune and be the first lucky hacker to write such a Parsing Module!! :) :)
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