wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files.
It can load and parse the Word 6-9 formats (Word 6, 95, 97, 2000).
And several converter executables called wvWare are also provided:
wvHtml, wvLatex, wvCleanLatex, wvDVI, wvPS, wvPDF,
wvText, wvAbw, wvWml, wvMime
note: wvHtml is previously known as MSWordView.
WWW: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/