Stripping out data from unstructured documents

I have hundreds of word and html documents that I need to strip out certain information. The html docs are completely unstructured. The word documents may or may not have the same structure. How can I leverage PL/SQL to extract out the data that I need? I have seen scripts where using PL/SQL you can give a byte position number. This may work for extracting out some of the data if positioned in the same place but I am looking to simplify the process and get the right information out in one pass. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am not necessarily looking for an exact answer but rather information that can lead me in the right direction. Of course the exact answer wouldn't hurt.

I read all of the thread for that particular post and I still don't believe I have what I need.
Maybe it is the instr function that you wanted me to look at and maybe not. I just don't know how I would use that to extract data.
What I am looking to do is to use some kind of PL/SQL statement to extract a unique identifier that will be in the document, dates that the document was created or appended, and then some region numbers. So can I use instr to find a value from each document, hold it in a flat file and then import this information back into the database? The value of course will be different in every document.
These files are currently not in a database. I am trying to get this information out of the document to store as metadata for each document. Am I looking at the right way to do this using PL/SQL or is there some other method of data extraction that I should consider

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