--- On Sun, 12/4/09, Zico <mailz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven`t try with live linux distro. But, i tried with my
> ubuntu laptop.
> But, when i tries to open those doc files, it goes for
> "ASCII Filter
> Options". I selected "Character Set: Unicode" , "Default
> font: Liberation
> Serif" & "Language: English". But, it shows nothing but
> a couple of signs
> there!

If you want only text out the file, try strings to extract text, it may work

strings corruptedfile > somefile.txt

For pdf you may try pdf to text conversion.

Raman.P


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