[ILUG] convert word docs -> html

[Caolan McNamara]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:25 +0100, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got over 2000 word documents I need to convert to html.
...
> Oowriter from openoffice does a marvellous job when I open the doc 
> and manually save it as html, but it would seem far from trivial to 
> script.


In oowriter New->AutoPilot->Document Converter-> there is a wizard for
converting mass amounts of documents from .doc to the .sxw format, the
source for the wizard is in 
Tools->Macros->Macro... soffice->ImportWizard, 
perhaps with a bit of digging and hacking you could be able to find the
bit which is presumably hardcoded to ".sxw" or "OpenOffice File Format"
and change it to .html.

If not, googling or searching the openoffice.org website for stuff to do
with the ImportWizard might throw up a "I've done this already" post.
Certainly if all quick fixes fail you can script OOo externally from
python (and java/c++ etc) to do the job, the brave can have a look at a
python example cgi example to convert a single document to PDF or
something. http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Fragments/ooo-cgi.html

C.
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