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This gem is unmaintained. Please let me know if you want to maintain it.

Libreconv

Convert office documents using LibreOffice / OpenOffice to one of their supported formats.

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'libreconv'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install libreconv

Usage

You need to install Libreoffice or Openoffice on your system to use this gem. The code has been tested with Libreoffice 4.4.

require 'libreconv'

# Converts document.docx to my_document_as.pdf
# This requires that the soffice binary is present in your PATH.
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/my_document_as.pdf')

# Converts document.docx to pdf and writes the output to the specified path
# This requires that the soffice binary is present in your PATH.
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents')

# You can also convert a source file directly from an URL
Libreconv.convert('http://myserver.com/123/document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/doc.pdf')

# Converts document.docx to document.pdf
# If you for some reason can't have soffice in your PATH you can specifiy the file path to the soffice binary
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents', '/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice')

# Converts document.docx to my_document_as.html
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/my_document_as.html', nil, 'html')

# Converts document.docx to my_document_as.pdf using writer_pdf_Export filter
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/my_document_as.pdf', nil, 'pdf:writer_pdf_Export')

Credits

The following people have contributed ideas, documentation, or code to Libreconv:

  • Richard Nyström

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

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