Research Description Language (RDL) is an XML application for describing and publishing scientific research efforts. Research Editor (REd) is a tool for editing RDL documents, and exporting them to LaTeX, PDF, etc.
The Doc2Html command line operating program strippes the Word produced html files (by opening the documet, saving as html) leaving pure text + minimum html code. It also has a mode to convert data berween different charsets: DOS, Windows-1250 and ISO-8859