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.
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
www.mltweb.com/prof/testdoc.doc
lowriter
command on Ubuntu 12.04, it opened a splash window and froze. I killed it with C-c and tried again without a DISPLAY
variable. This time it first printed an error about missing display, but convert the document without any problems. Is it expected behavior, that the command can only work without a DISPLAY
environment variable?
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
You can also open that folder where you have all the .doc
or .docx
files and right click.Then select open terminal here. then type lowriter --convert-to pdf *.doc
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.)
pdf ~/some_.docx
, thats all. Thanks for the suggestion.