Converting .odt (Open Office Document) to (MS Word) .doc in console / terminal on Linux and FreeBSD

Thursday, 15th November 2012

Convert .odt open office document to Microsoft Office Word .doc format on GNU / Linux and FreeBSD unoconv - the universal console all open office supported file format to any other supported
If you need to convert from command line .ODT to .DOC on Linux or FreeBSD without installing the clumsy OpenOffice (particularly useful on older computers on which OpenOffice works too slow and takes too much of useless disk space), check  unoconv

Besides from supporting convert from .DOC to .PDF and a bunch of other formats convertion, I've just learned it supports also convert .ODT to .DOC. 

unoconv is also very simple to use, below is an example of converting .ODT previously created with LibreOffice to .DOC

hipo@noah:~$ unoconv -f doc Document_To_Convert.odt

hipo@noah:~$ ls -al Document_To_Convert.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 hipo hipo 9885184 14 ное 21,22 Document_To_Convert.doc

hipo@noah:~$ file Document_To_Convert.doc 
Document_To_Convert.doc: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 1.0, Code page: -535, Author: HBB, Last Saved By: HBB, Revision Number: 2, Total Editing Time: 04:00, Create Time/Date: Fri Feb 16 14:25:00 2007, Last Saved Time/Date: Fri Feb 16 14:25:00 2007

Here is also a full list of all formats to which unoconv supports convert

hipo@noah:~$ unoconv –show
The following list of document formats are currently available:

bib – BibTeX [.bib]
doc – Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP [.doc]
doc6 – Microsoft Word 6.0 [.doc]
doc95 – Microsoft Word 95 [.doc]
docbook – DocBook [.xml]
html – HTML Document (OpenOffice.org Writer) [.html]
odt – Open Document Text [.odt]
ott – Open Document Text [.ott]
ooxml – Microsoft Office Open XML [.xml]
pdb – AportisDoc (Palm) [.pdb]
pdf – Portable Document Format [.pdf]
psw – Pocket Word [.psw]
rtf – Rich Text Format [.rtf]
latex – LaTeX 2e [.ltx]
sdw – StarWriter 5.0 [.sdw]
sdw4 – StarWriter 4.0 [.sdw]
sdw3 – StarWriter 3.0 [.sdw]
stw – Open Office.org 1.0 Text Document Template [.stw]
sxw – Open Office.org 1.0 Text Document [.sxw]
text – Text Encoded [.txt]
txt – Plain Text [.txt]
vor – StarWriter 5.0 Template [.vor]
vor4 – StarWriter 4.0 Template [.vor]
vor3 – StarWriter 3.0 Template [.vor]
xhtml – XHTML Document [.html]

The following list of graphics formats are currently available:

bmp – Windows Bitmap [.bmp]
emf – Enhanced Metafile [.emf]
eps – Encapsulated PostScript [.eps]
gif – Graphics Interchange Format [.gif]
html – HTML Document (OpenOffice.org Draw) [.html]
jpg – Joint Photographic Experts Group [.jpg]
met – OS/2 Metafile [.met]
odd – OpenDocument Drawing [.odd]
otg – OpenDocument Drawing Template [.otg]
pbm – Portable Bitmap [.pbm]
pct – Mac Pict [.pct]
pdf – Portable Document Format [.pdf]
pgm – Portable Graymap [.pgm]
png – Portable Network Graphic [.png]
ppm – Portable Pixelmap [.ppm]
ras – Sun Raster Image [.ras]
std – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Drawing Template [.std]
svg – Scalable Vector Graphics [.svg]
svm – StarView Metafile [.svm]
swf – Macromedia Flash (SWF) [.swf]
sxd – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Drawing [.sxd]
sxd3 – StarDraw 3.0 [.sxd]
sxd5 – StarDraw 5.0 [.sxd]
tiff – Tagged Image File Format [.tiff]
vor – StarDraw 5.0 Template [.vor]
vor3 – StarDraw 3.0 Template [.vor]
wmf – Windows Metafile [.wmf]
xhtml – XHTML [.xhtml]
xpm – X PixMap [.xpm]

The following list of presentation formats are currently available:

bmp – Windows Bitmap [.bmp]
emf – Enhanced Metafile [.emf]
eps – Encapsulated PostScript [.eps]
gif – Graphics Interchange Format [.gif]
html – HTML Document (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.html]
jpg – Joint Photographic Experts Group [.jpg]
met – OS/2 Metafile [.met]
odd – OpenDocument Drawing (Impress) [.odd]
odg – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Drawing (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.odg]
odp – OpenDocument Presentation [.odp]
otp – OpenDocument Presentation Template [.otp]
pbm – Portable Bitmap [.pbm]
pct – Mac Pict [.pct]
pdf – Portable Document Format [.pdf]
pgm – Portable Graymap [.pgm]
png – Portable Network Graphic [.png]
pot – Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP Template [.pot]
ppm – Portable Pixelmap [.ppm]
ppt – Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP [.ppt]
pwp – PlaceWare [.pwp]
ras – Sun Raster Image [.ras]
sda – StarDraw 5.0 (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.sda]
sdd – StarImpress 5.0 [.sdd]
sdd3 – StarDraw 3.0 (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.sdd]
sdd4 – StarImpress 4.0 [.sdd]
sti – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation Template [.sti]
stp – OpenDocument Presentation Template [.stp]
svg – Scalable Vector Graphics [.svg]
svm – StarView Metafile [.svm]
swf – Macromedia Flash (SWF) [.swf]
sxi – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation [.sxi]
tiff – Tagged Image File Format [.tiff]
vor – StarImpress 5.0 Template [.vor]
vor3 – StarDraw 3.0 Template (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.vor]
vor4 – StarImpress 4.0 Template [.vor]
vor5 – StarDraw 5.0 Template (OpenOffice.org Impress) [.vor]
wmf – Windows Metafile [.wmf]
xhtml – XHTML [.xml]
xpm – X PixMap [.xpm]

The following list of spreadsheet formats are currently available:

csv – Text CSV [.csv]
dbf – dBase [.dbf]
dif – Data Interchange Format [.dif]
html – HTML Document (OpenOffice.org Calc) [.html]
ods – Open Document Spreadsheet [.ods]
ooxml – Microsoft Excel 2003 XML [.xml]
pdf – Portable Document Format [.pdf]
pts – OpenDocument Spreadsheet Template [.pts]
pxl – Pocket Excel [.pxl]
sdc – StarCalc 5.0 [.sdc]
sdc4 – StarCalc 4.0 [.sdc]
sdc3 – StarCalc 3.0 [.sdc]
slk – SYLK [.slk]
stc – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet Template [.stc]
sxc – OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet [.sxc]
vor3 – StarCalc 3.0 Template [.vor]
vor4 – StarCalc 4.0 Template [.vor]
vor – StarCalc 5.0 Template [.vor]
xhtml – XHTML [.xhtml]
xls – Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP [.xls]
xls5 – Microsoft Excel 5.0 [.xls]
xls95 – Microsoft Excel 95 [.xls]
xlt – Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP Template [.xlt]
xlt5 – Microsoft Excel 5.0 Template [.xlt]
xlt95 – Microsoft Excel 95 Template [.xlt]

 

unoconv is said to support convertion between any to any document format that is already supported by OpenOffice / LibreOffice. The script is written by Dag Wieers (users of Fedora, RHEL and other RPM based distros should remember him well. DGW repositories always were of great help where some kind of not main stream software has to be installed on RPM based Linux. You might want to check unoconv's official website which gives good overview on it.

Though the tool is written for Linux, there is a BSD users port in freshports.

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One Response to “Converting .odt (Open Office Document) to (MS Word) .doc in console / terminal on Linux and FreeBSD”

  1. Junita says:
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    Very great tutorial. Extremely helpful. Thank you very much!

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