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Re:Elementary OS 6 Odin by peterburkimsher on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:51PM (#28137021)
The QuickLook backend is really convenient for having a parser to turn everything into HTML (and therefore text).

I wrote an AppleScript to convert DOCX or PPTX to TXT using qlmanage -p | textutil

Using QuickLook to turn anything to HTML:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2010071209045151...

Using textutil to convert HTML to TXT:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32621215

AppleScript source code: https://pastebin.com/JRbXTv8d

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