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)
(On Windows, add PROGRAMFILES environment variable for Windows program files path to your local project)

Usage example

``javascript
'use strict';

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

const libre = require('libreoffice-convert');
libre.convertAsync = require('util').promisify(libre.convert);

async function main() {
const ext = '.pdf'
const inputPath = path.join(__dirname, '/resources/example.docx');
const outputPath = path.join(__dirname, /resources/example${ext});

// Read file
const docxBuf = await fs.readFile(inputPath);

// Convert it to pdf format with undefined filter (see Libreoffice docs about filter)
let pdfBuf = await libre.convertAsync(docxBuf, ext, undefined);

// Here in done you have pdf file which you can save or transfer in another stream
await fs.writeFile(outputPath, pdfBuf);
}

main().catch(function (err) {
console.log(Error converting file: ${err});
});
``