parallel converter to plain text for doc, docx, rtf, pdf files
File conversion with libreoffice is difficult to parallelize for massive batch conversion. And sometimes libreoffice hang makes it impossible to use.
This docker image converts all files (doc, docx, rtf, pdf ) in the input folder to plain text, via html with dedicated tools and GNU Parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/).
Source code are available on github : https://github.com/dridk/all2txt
- *.doc file are converted with abiword
- *.rtf are converted with rtf2html
- *.docx are converted with pandoc
- *.pdf are converted with pdf2html
- Create a folder named input with all your documents inside .
- Pull image:
docker pull dridk/all2txt - Run conversion with :
docker run -v $(pwd)/input:/input --rm -it all2txt