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OpenOffice.org 2.0 released
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I've been itching for a command-line document conversion tool in general, presumably based on the OOo 2.0 codebase. It'd be nice if I could, for example auto-run a ".doc to .odt" conversion program on received "Word(tm)" documents without calling up the whole "OpenOffice Writer" program...
DrDubious: do you need the format of the document in tact?
If you don't, google "antiword"...
If you don't, google "antiword"...
Eh... if antiword is good enough then wvWare is better. It contains such
things as wvHtml, wvRTF and wvDocbook which may be better starting points.
HTH Martin
HTH Martin
Or, you might be interested in what the OpenOpenOffice project is doing. The server they're building is based on a perl module that can be used for automatic document conversions, among other things. You'll find it in CPAN, and articles have been written about it. I think either linux.com, linuxjournal.com or perl.com. LXer has probably linked to at least one of the articles. http://www.phase-n.com/openopenoffice/
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Basically I am lazy don't want to open each file separately in Open Office, and then save them as the new format. That and Open Office 2.0 doesn't support OS X so i have to move my files to another machine in order to convert them.