Re: doc to html from a cmdline?

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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:56:07AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:33:58PM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> > Steven W. Orr wrote:
> >> I have about 75 doc files. If I bring one up in ooffice, I can save it
> >> as a .html file with no problem. Is there a way to do it from the
> >> command line? All this clickety is going to take me too long.
> > sudo yum install wv
> > for filename in `ls *.doc`;
> >   do
> >       htmlname=`echo $filename | sed -e 's/.doc/.html/g'`
> >       /usr/bin/wvHtml $filename $htmlname
> >   done;
> >
> > Depending on what your Word files are, your conversion mileage may differ.
> 
> Or, since OpenOffice.org is giving you the results you like, rather
> than switching rendering, you could do the following:
> 
> 1. Make sure that the PyUNO bits for OpenOffice.org are installed.  On
> Fedora 10, this is the "openoffice.org-pyuno" package (go figure).
> 
> 2. Download this helpful script, which I found by googling:
>    http://www.artofsolving.com/files/DocumentConverter.py
> 
> 3. Do a batch conversion:
> 
>    for F in *.doc ; do
>        H="$(basename "$F" .doc).html"
>        python DocumentConverter.py "$F" "$H"
>    done
> 
> Note my little batch command is very similar to the one above; I just
> happen to be using the "basename" command, which I think most distros
> include.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I left out step 2.5:

2.5.  Start an OpenOffice service so the script works:  :-)

      ooffice -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;"


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