title: Scraping structured information from hundreds of Word documents?
body: <p>I've been tasked with extracting some structured information from hundreds of human readable documents (mostly MS Word) and to put it into a database. The data is pretty much embedded in tables throughout the entire document but there's a lot of text between the tables and although the documents are very similar in structure, there are a few differences. The documents are changed fairly often (we get an updated version every few months)</p>
  
  <p>So far the only viable option i can think of is to manually go trough all the documents and insert/update the information but I thought I'd ask here if anyone think it's possible to scrape the documents in some way?</p>
  
  <p>Oh, and the data has to be fairly correct...</p>