oodocument 0.0.1

Basic tasks to convert and replace files using uno api

oodocument

Connects vía Uno bridge interface with libreoffice to perform simple format conversions and replace string over a document.

Dependencies

If you are virtualenv user, you need to create with option --system-site-packages as it needs to use system site-packages which has uno module installed by $ sudo apt-get install python3-uno. (Unfortunately, uno module is not available from pip).

 sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common python3-uno

You must run headless libreoffice service (libreoffice executable can be different on different gnu/linux distros, another options can be soffice or loffice)

/usr/bin/libreoffice --headless --nologo --nofirststartwizard --accept="socket,host=0.0.0.0,port=8001;urp"

Features

• Search and replace
• Support file Conversion to pdf, txt and docx

Example

Search and Replace

Will open input.docx file, search for holamundo String and replacing it by XXX, then would save the output to output.pdf with pdf format.

data = {}
data['holamundo'] = 'XXX'
oo = oodocument('./input.docx', host='0.0.0.0', port=8001)
oo.replace_with(data, './output.pdf', 'pdf')
oo.dispose()

Will open input.docx file, search for holamundo String and replacing it by XXX, then would save the output to the same file.

data = {}
data['holamundo'] = 'XXX'
oo = oodocument('./input.docx', host='0.0.0.0', port=8001)
oo.replace_with(data)
oo.dispose()

Will convert input.docx file to output.txt file with txt format

oo = oodocument('./input.docx', host='0.0.0.0', port=8001)
oo.convert_to('./output.txt', 'txt')
oo.dispose()

TODO

• Set global temoral directory
• Tutorial dockerizing libreoffice ( including binding directories, volume)
• Tests