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PHP Wrapper for LibreOffice

Convert offices files to PDF and HTML using LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Supported conversion formats include:

pptx => pdf
ppt => pdf
pdf => pdf, html
html => txt
docx => pdf, odt, html
doc => pdf, odt, html
xlsx => pdf
xls => pdf
png => pdf
jpg => pdf
jpeg => pdf
tiff => pdf
tif => pdf
pps => pdf
ppsx => pdf

Installation

It is recommended to install OfficeConverter through Composer.

Run this command within your project directory

composer require digitalideastudio/office-converter

Dependencies

In order to use OfficeConverter, you need to install LibreOffice.

Example for Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS:

apt-get update
apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ghostscript openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 libreoffice

Usage

Here are some samples.

<?php
// if you are using composer, just use this
use NcJoes\OfficeConverter\OfficeConverter;

$converter = new OfficeConverter('test-file.docx');
$converter->convertTo('output-file.pdf'); //generates pdf file in same directory as test-file.docx
$converter->convertTo('output-file.html'); //generates html file in same directory as test-file.docx

//to specify output directory, specify it as the second argument to the constructor
$converter = new OfficeConverter('test-file.docx', 'path-to-outdir');
?>

License

The OfficeConverter package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

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