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Convert .doc/.docx documents to .odt (Open document text) and vice versa using java.

Is there any java library which can be used for converted Microsoft Word files (doc/docx) to Open Document Text format(.odt) formats. Free library would be preferable.

Solution

  • I don't know about any libraries that do it directly, but it should be relatively easy to exact the bits you're interested from a .docx using poi:

    http://poi.apache.org/

    and then write them to an ODT format using ODFDOM:

    http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odfdom/index.html

    This should be relatively straightforward for simple documents, but if your use case calls for complex doucments containing pictures etc, this might become a LOT harder.

    Anyway, hope this helps at least some ;)