ODT to text conversion

Ben Eisenbraun bene at klatsch.org
Thu May 3 19:51:27 EDT 2007


On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:49:23PM -0400, Bob - BLU wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a Linux command-line tool chain to convert 
> OpenOffice.org odt (odf) files to ascii text files while preserving some 
> basic text formatting.

If you're willing to hide the big, scary backend behind a simple 
command line tool, you can run OO as a daemon and use pyuno to access 
most of its document conversion features.

We do on-the-fly ps/pdf/doc/rtf/txt/odt conversions between formats 
using a system like that.

-b

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