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"... I'm hoping there's a way to automate it through OO.o. ..."

Try http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenOffice-OODoc/ and http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenOffice-OODoc/OODoc/Intro.pod I've had some success parsing Open Office docs & word docs to text. Be prepared to parse XML and read the spec.