.doc parser supports method=abiword, does work on Windows as well

textract/parsers/doc_parser.py

@@ -1,10 +1,45 @@
 from .utils import ShellParser
-
+from ..exceptions import UnknownMethod, ShellError
 
 class Parser(ShellParser):
-    """Extract text from doc files using antiword.
+    """Extract text from doc files using antiword or abiword.
     """
 
-    def extract(self, filename, **kwargs):
+    def extract(self, filename, method='', **kwargs):
+        if method == '' or method == 'antiword':
+            try:
+                return self.extract_antiword(filename, **kwargs)
+            except ShellError as ex:
+                # If antiword isn't installed , then gracefully fallback to using
+                # abiword instead.
+                if method == '' and ex.is_not_installed():
+                    return self.extract_abiword(filename, **kwargs)
+                else:
+                    raise ex
+
+        elif method == 'antiword':
+            return self.extract_antiword(filename, **kwargs)
+        elif method == 'abiword':
+            return self.extract_abiword(filename, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            raise UnknownMethod(method)
+
+    def extract_abiword(self, filename, **kwargs):
+        """Extract text from .doc using abiword. Supports Windows as well. """
+        temp_filename = self.temp_filename()
+
+        self.run(['abiword','--to=txt','-o',temp_filename, filename])
+        txt = None
+        with open(temp_filename,'r',encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            txt = f.read()
+        try:
+            os.remove(temp_filename)
+        except:
+            pass
+
+        return txt
+
+
+    def extract_antiword(self, filename, **kwargs):
         stdout, stderr = self.run(['antiword', filename])
         return stdout