B2UConverter-CLI is a command-line interface for B2Uconverter.
The script was heavily based on PyODConverter and, of course, B2Uconverter.
B2UConverter-CLI requires LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org to be running as a service and listening on port (by default) 2002; this can be achieved e.g. by starting it from the command line as
$ {PATH_TO_soffice} --headless --nofirststartwizard --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2012;urp;StarOffice.Service"
where {PATH_TO_soffice} is often /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice or /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
The script expects exactly 2 parameters: an input and an output file names. The document formats are inferred from the file extensions.
Since it uses the Python/UNO bridge, the script requires the UNO modules to be already present in your Python installation.
on Linux:
$ git clone https://github.com/myguidingstar/pyodconverter.git
$ git submodule update
$ make
$ export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:{PATH_TO_program}:$PWD"
$ python DocumentConverter.py test.odt test.pdfwhere {PATH_TO_program} is often /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program or /usr/lib/libreoffice/program
If you want to write your own scripts in Python, B2UConverter-CLI can also act as a Python module, exporting a DocumentConverter class with a very simple API.
from DocumentConverter import DocumentConverter
DocumentConverter().convert("/path/to/some.doc", "/path/to/some.odt")