MS Word Import module

For more information or to ask questions about this proposal, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/9929.

A true Microsoft Word-to-Node import module. The basic features of which would be:

-- An upload page that lets the user select a Word (or similar OpenOffice document) for upload/import.
-- A setting (both default and user controlled) for mapping the document to a node type.
-- On upload, strips the character data from the document, cleans it, and creates a new node.
-- Takes the user to the node edit page for the newly created node.

The conversion could rely on an external library for the text transformation rather than a Drupal-native parser.

The module should also be extensible to other types of "foreign" content conversion. Notably PDF, Excel, PowerPoint.