OpenOffice as a Document Converter

Though not well known for it, OpenOffice.org can be extended as a doument conversion engine capable of conversion between almost all kind of office documents. OpenOffice.org directly doesn’t support a command-line option, but allows it to be run as a service. An open source tool JodConverter (earlier called JooConverter) provides a wrapper for the OpenOffice.org service and exposes web and command-line interaces to simply convert between the compatible office formats.

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