I currently have some medical records in doc form that are binary text created in ms office word.
I want to create dates, times, doctor, patient visits into charts for the doctors within a dashboard in Splunk.
Is there a way that I can convert my binary document into a text based document so I can splunk it?
Is this possible?
It would be trivial to write a Microsoft VBA macro that simply re-saved a file with the same name, but in Unicode text format with a .txt extension. In fact, here it is
Public Sub SaveAsUnicodeFile()
Dim newName As String
Dim pos As Integer
pos = InStrRev(ActiveDocument.Name, ".")
If pos > 0 Then
newName = Left$(ActiveDocument.Name, pos - 1)
Else
newName = ActiveDocument.Name
End If
newName = ActiveDocument.Path & "\" & newName & ".txt"
Call ActiveDocument.SaveAs(FileName:=newName, FileFormat:=wdFormatUnicodeText)
End Sub
This version of the macro re-saves the active document, but you could change it so that the name of the file to save was supplied as an argument...
What about exporting to RTF ?
Not sure if this is what you are asking for, but it appears to me to be worth trying: