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Convert PDF files to Microsoft Office Word compatible doc/docx files, using LibreOffice's command line interface.
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#!C:/Python27/python.exe | |
# | |
# Convert PDF files to Microsoft Office Word compatible doc/docx files, | |
# using LibreOffice's command line interface. | |
# | |
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26358281/convert-pdf-to-doc-python-bash | |
# http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/20111/converting-files-using-soffice-convert-to-with-embedded-images-html-to-doc/ | |
# http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/filter/source/config/fragments/filters | |
# | |
import os | |
import sys | |
import subprocess | |
# pdf source file(s) and target paths | |
basedir = 'C:/path/to' | |
pdfdir = os.path.normpath(basedir + '/pdf') | |
docdir = os.path.normpath(basedir + '/doc') | |
docxdir = os.path.normpath(basedir + '/docx') | |
# absolute path to libre office writer application | |
lowriter = 'C:/Progra~2/LibreO~1/program/swriter.exe' | |
# output-filter for conversion | |
#outfilter = ':"Office Open XML Text"' | |
#outfilter = ':"MS Word 2003 XML"' | |
#outfilter = ':"MS Word 2007 XML"' | |
#outfilter = ':"MS Word 97"' | |
outfilter = '' | |
i = 0 | |
for top, dirs, files in os.walk(pdfdir): | |
for filename in files: | |
if filename.endswith('.pdf'): | |
i = i + 1 | |
abspath_pdf = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(top, filename)) | |
print 'Converting {0} into .doc format..'.format(abspath_pdf) | |
subprocess.call('{0} --invisible --convert-to doc{1} --outdir "{2}" "{3}"' | |
.format(lowriter, outfilter, docdir, abspath_pdf), shell=True) | |
print 'Converting {0} into .docx format..'.format(abspath_pdf) | |
subprocess.call('{0} --invisible --convert-to docx{1} --outdir "{2}" "{3}"' | |
.format(lowriter, outfilter, docxdir, abspath_pdf), shell=True) | |
print '|-------------------------------------------------------|' | |
print 'Done. Converted {0} pdf files.'.format(i) |
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Please try to use lid pdf2docx.
Easy to use.
https://dothinking.github.io/pdf2docx/quickstart.convert.html