Capturing Graphics Embedded in Word

[Lippincott Richard J Contr ESC/NI <Richard -dot- Lippincott -at- hanscom -dot- af -dot- mil>]

My group has hit a technical problem dealing with Word 2003 on XP, we're looking to see if a solution exists.

We get Word documents from a vendor. These docs typically run a few hundred pages and contain a hundred or so illustrations. 

What we want to do is convert the Word docs to SGML for use in Arbortext Epic. Due to a way that the vendor embedded the graphic files, it's causing Epic to choke on the conversion. We need to pull out the graphics, and preferably save them to a separate folder so that we can retrieve them later to code into the SGML. The only method we've been able to do is one at a time select the figure, copy the graphic, then paste it into a tool such as MS Paint or PaintShop. This will take hours.

We can't possibly be the first people to have the need to do this, can we? Has anyone made a took that will speed up this process?

BTW, I'm on digest, please copy me at this address for any suggestions.

Thanks,


Rick Lippincott
Bedford, MA

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