Remove macros etc from office documents via ruby

Question

Is there a way of specifying components to remove from MS or Openoffice documents via ruby? I'm talking about removing macros/meta information and also removing/replacing images. I've looked at a number of conversion programs with a view to doing a conversion from/to the same file format, but I can't find any that allow such options to be specified.

I've looked at:

Convert_office
Abiword - I've modified the original gem to allow conversion to doc as well as pdf.

@JasonPlutext I'd rather stick to a ruby solution as I don't have jRuby or Java experience but if there's no other alternative. — Simmo, Oct 29 '13 at 08:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '13 at 01:14

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Docx files are really zip files. You can unzip them (inflate) into a directory and delete or change the files you need, and update references to those files. The files inside the zip are text files, XML, so you can use LibXML-Ruby or Nokogiri.

answered Nov 02 '13 at 01:14

Chloe

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I was hoping for something that covered older versions of Word as well, but in the absence of a better answer, I'll mark yours as correct. Obviously what I'm looking for doesn't currently exist, publicly at least. – Simmo Nov 19 '13 at 11:22

Remove macros etc from office documents via ruby

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