How to Batch Convert. Doc Or. Docx To. Pdf
I Need to Batch Convert a Set Of. Doc Or. Docx Files To. Pdf in Terminal, Not Using a Gui. It Would Be Helpful If I Could Batch-Process Multiple Files. I Would...
I need to batch convert a set of .doc or .docx files to .pdf in terminal, not using a GUI.
It would be helpful if I could batch-process multiple files.
I would also like to maintain as much meta-data as possible.
4 Answers
lowriter can be used as a command line tool (lowriter is a part of LibreOffice)
lowriter --convert-to pdf *.doc
convert /home/bodhi/Documents/testdoc2.doc -> /home/bodhi/Documents/testdoc2.pdf using writer_pdf_Export
convert /home/bodhi/Documents/testdoc.doc -> /home/bodhi/Documents/testdoc.pdf using writer_pdf_Export
evince testdoc.pdf
I do not have windows, so testdoc download from here
I use unoconv, which converts all formats supported by LibreOffice.
I use the following script:
for f in *.doc
do
lowriter --headless --convert-to pdf "$f"
done
--headless will prevent Libreoffice from opening 100s of files and eventually crashing if you try this with directories containing a lot of .doc files
In my opinion, the best way is with unoconv.
First install the package:
sudo apt install unoconv
and then convert to pdf using this command:
unoconv -f pdf XXYY.docx
(Replace XXYY.docx with the name of your file.)
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