catdoc.1 mentions a "catdoc library directory" several times:
Charset file has format described in CHARACTER SETS below and should have .txt extension and reside in catdoc library directory ( /usr/lib64/catdoc). ...
[Character sets] are stored in plain text files in catdoc library directory ...
These lists [of character substitutions] are stored in catdoc library directory ...
its system-wide configuration file ( catdocrc in catdoc library directory)
But there is no /usr/lib64/catdoc. catdoc's charset .txt files and substitution .specchars files (and replacement .replchars files) are all stored in catdoc's data directory, /usr/share/catdoc on most Linux systems. And it looks for its system-wide configuration file in the usual system configuration directory (/etc on most Linux systems), not in a catdoc-specific directory.