It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages.

Typically, companies use optical character recognition (OCR) software to extract text and data from files like contracts, tax documents, expense reports or patient forms.

There are, however, a few promising means for exchanging documents with Office 2007 users, or at least extracting pertinent data from said documents.