On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:57 +0000
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> > Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the
> >> image file in its original format, please?
> >
> > Open the doc file with OpenOffice, save it as a odt file.
> > The odt is a renamed zip archive that should contain the image in
> > on of
> > its subfolders.
> 
> Great idea, Sebastian.
> 
> The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is
> immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to document.zip.
> 
> It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have  
> predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension.
> 
> Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document",
> but it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word.

Have you tried opening this "Object 1" file in OpenOffice and repeat
the steps above again?


Cheers,
Renat

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