#+options: toc:nil num:nil author:nil

* How to convert office documents to text

** From office document to pdf and then to plain text

You may use libreoffice from terminal to transform the file in pdf:

#+begin_example sh
  libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf Presentation.pptx
#+end_example

Then from a pdf you can use 'pdftotext' command to transform the pdf file to any
plain text format:

#+begin_example sh
  pdftotext Presentation.pdf Presentation.txt
#+end_example


** One more example: convert odf files to pdf using libreoffice

Convert odt file "tcl_online3.odt" to pdf

#+begin_src bash
  libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf tcl_online3.odt
#+end_src