Document Converter for Multiple Files

I’ve found a python script that uses OpenOffice.org’s UNO library. The script can convert from Open Document formats (.odt, .ods, .odp) to Microsoft Office Formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) or to comma separated value (.csv), a PDF or even to a text file (.txt).

It works great, but still I need some enhancement to make it more usable in my current situation. I need to convert  multiple files located in different folders inside a common path. So I created a bash script that can convert them faster and more efficient than doing it manually.

The script requires a running OpenOffice.org as service on port 8100 and python 2.4 or 2.6.  The script automatically create a headless OpenOffice.org service and terminate it afterwards.

You can get the python script here: DocumentConvert.py.

Here’s my script:

#!/bin/bash
# Document Converter Main
# To convert various document to different types (.doc, .xls, .odt, .ods, .ppt, .odp, .pdf)


#START OPENOFFICE HEADLESS MODE
DOCUMENTCONVERT=$HOME/.scripts/documentconverter/DocumentConverter.py
/usr/bin/soffice -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null
sleep 2
GET_PID_SOFFICE=$(ps aux | grep "soffice.bin" | grep -v "grep" | grep "8100" | awk '{print $2}')

TEMP_FILE=/tmp/doc_source.txt
TARGET_DIR=$(zenity --file-selection --directory --title="Select Target Directory")

DOCTYPE=$(zenity --entry  --text="$RETURNVAL Enter Source File Extension" --title="Souce Document Type" --width=250)
SOURCE_DOCTYPE=$(echo "$DOCTYPE" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g')

DOCTYPE=$(zenity --entry  --text="$RETURNVAL Enter Target File Extension" --title="Target Document Type" --width=250)
TARGET_DOCTYPE=$(echo "$DOCTYPE" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g')

find "$TARGET_DIR" -iname "*.$SOURCE_DOCTYPE" > $TEMP_FILE

cat $TEMP_FILE | \
while read FILE; do
 FILENAME=$(basename "$FILE")
 GETFILENAME=${FILENAME%.*}
 PATHNAME="$( readlink -f "$( dirname "$FILE" )" )"
 python $DOCUMENTCONVERT "$PATHNAME/$FILENAME"  "$PATHNAME/$GETFILENAME.$TARGET_DOCTYPE"
done


kill -9 $GET_PID_SOFFICE
exit 0

 

 

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