https://github.com/scivision/office-headless

Headless document conversion and printing using LibreOffice or Microsoft Office
https://github.com/scivision/office-headless

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Headless document conversion and printing using LibreOffice or Microsoft Office

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scivision/office-headless
• Owner: scivision
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-03T13:37:34.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-30T18:03:24.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T03:09:25.087Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: asyncio, document-conversion, libreoffice-converter
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 45.9 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Headless LibreOffice / Microsoft Office

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Headless (command line) operations by LibreOffice or Microsoft Office on Word, Excel, PowerPoint and most other

[formats LibreOffice can handle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Supported_file_formats)

for:

* Doc => PDF conversion  (LibreOffice only)

* printing (to the system default printer only)

from Python command line using LibreOffice or Microsoft Word

## standalone single file document to PDF

For reuse in other programs and projects, we made a

[separate standalone script doc2pdf.py](./doc2pdf.py)

to convert any document that LibreOffice can handle to PDF.

```sh

python doc2pdf.py ~/mydoc.docx

```

## .doc / .docx to PDF conversion

Convert a directory of .doc / .docx to .pdf by:

```sh

python -m loutils.doc2pdf ~/Documents

```

## Printing

CAUTION:

The doc2print.py script can print an unlimited number of pages to an unwanted printer, possibly causing great expense or violation of private documents to a public printer. Use great care with these scripts, preferably to a local non-networked printer you are sitting next to.

```sh

python -m loutils.doc2print ~/mydocs

```

The `-exe` parameter allows selecting the printing program.

The script does not check that the files can be printed appropriately, it just prints.

Thus use the `-s` parameter to select only the suffixes wanted.

For example to print all Markdown files in a directory with Notepad++:

```sh

python -m loutils.doc2print ~/mydocs -s .md -exe notepad++

```

LibreOffice 7.2 finally fixed file globbing, but we use explicit for-looping to work with older LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is not thread-safe, so documents are converted or printed one at a time.