catdoc software package provides MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install catdoc
catdoc is installed in your system.
Make ensure the catdoc package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep catdoc *
You will get with catdoc package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | catdoc |
| Version | 0.94.4-1.1 |
| Description | MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter |
| Sub Section | Text |