libreoffice-convert

libreoffice-convert

A simple and fast node.js module for converting office documents to different formats.

Dependency

Please install libreoffice in /Applications (Mac), with your favorite package manager (Linux), or with the msi (Windows).

Usage example

const libre = require('libreoffice-convert');

const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');

const extend = '.pdf'
const enterPath = path.join(__dirname, '/resources/example.docx');
const outputPath = path.join(__dirname, `/resources/example${extend}`);

// Read file
const enterPath = fs.readFileSync(enterPath);
// Convert it to pdf format with undefined filter (see Libreoffice doc about filter)
libre.convert(enterPath, extend, undefined, (err, done) => {
    if (err) {
      console.log(`Error converting file: ${err}`);
    }
    
    // Here in done you have pdf file which you can save or transfer in another stream
    fs.writeFileSync(outputPath, done);
});