The latest articles on DEV Community by Ryan Thomas (@rthomascloud). https://dev.to/rthomascloud https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F617135%2Fb31963b9-1799-4ad5-9acf-e7e9d6924eed.png https://dev.to/rthomascloud en Ryan Thomas Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:32:06 +0000 https://dev.to/rthomascloud/convert-word-docx-to-pdf-without-any-os-dependencies-mk9 https://dev.to/rthomascloud/convert-word-docx-to-pdf-without-any-os-dependencies-mk9 <p>In the <a href="https://dev.to/rthomascloud/word2pdf-cli-on-openbsd-and-linux-2750">previous post</a> I wrote about a tool I wrote in a very simplistic manner to manipulate word documents on the command line so I could grep for various text in there.</p> <p>Today I have created another tool on [GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/rthomascloud/word2pdf">https://github.com/rthomascloud/word2pdf</a>) which carries out the tedious task of converting an MS Word (DocX) file to a PDF without having MS word installed on a server. This tool is still a work in progress as the underlying library just started supporting this feature, I will be filing bug requests for them, but I have already started using this for my customers. I have also created off the shelf docker images based on Alpine that can now convert Word documents to PDF and still being only a few megabytes of size. </p> <p>Feel free to try the tool and leave me feedback on GitHub issues, I love making useful and cross platform CLI tools to make life easier. </p> go bash linux cloudnative Ryan Thomas Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:33:23 +0000 https://dev.to/rthomascloud/word2pdf-cli-on-openbsd-and-linux-2750 https://dev.to/rthomascloud/word2pdf-cli-on-openbsd-and-linux-2750 <p>I have regularly had the need to search/grep MS Word files for various things, normally ended up using a script running on Windows or more recently a docker container containing bunch of openoffice and a bunch of dependencies. I am a big fan of the Go/Golang programming language as it can generate a standalone executable and it has made it possible for geeks such as myself to create a minimal docker images with next to no dependencies. Therefore I came across the UniDoc UniOffice and UniPDF projects that can create Word and PDF documents in pure Go which means it is possible to create standalone binaries. I could very quickly create a few line CLI application that can convert the MS Word document into text and then I can use the standard unix grep and other utilities for further text processing. The tool is accessible at <a href="https://github.com/rthomascloud/word2text">https://github.com/rthomascloud/word2text</a>. I have also put it into a minimal Docker container based on Alpine which I use also.</p> <p>In the coming weeks I will be creating more similar tools to convert PDF to Word, Powerpoint to Text and Excel to text to replace the hacked up openoffice stuff I have put together, stay tuned :). </p> go bash linux cloud