Is antiword safe to use?

antiword has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.3.5). DepScope rates its health at 53/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of antiword?

The latest version of antiword is 1.3.5, released 2026-02-27.

Does antiword have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of antiword.

Is antiword deprecated?

No, antiword is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.3.5 (2026-02-27).

What are alternatives to antiword?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for antiword at this time.

What license does antiword use?

antiword is licensed under GPL-2.

antiword

cranv1.3.5

Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents. Wraps the 'AntiWord' utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents. The utility only supports the old 'doc' format, not the new xml based 'docx' format. Use the 'xml2' package to read the latter.

License GPL-2strong copyleft0 versions1 maintainers1 deps2,010 weekly dl

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=antiword

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 53/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

6/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

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Dependencies (1)

sys

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First published · 2026-02-27 06:32:55

Last updated · 2026-02-27T05:30:26+00:00