I have been trying to find the efficient way to convert document e.g. doc, docx, ppt, pptx to pdf. So far i have tried docsplit and oowriter, but both took > 10 seconds to complete the job on pptx file having size 1.7MB. Can any one suggest me a better way or suggestions to improve my approach?
What i have tried:
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import time
def convert(src, dst):
d = {'src': src, 'dst': dst}
commands = [
'/usr/bin/docsplit pdf --output %(dst)s %(src)s' % d,
'oowriter --headless -convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export %(dst)s %(src)s' % d,
]
for i in range(len(commands)):
command = commands[i]
st = time.time()
process = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, shell=True) # I am aware of consequences of using `shell=True`
out, err = process.communicate()
errcode = process.returncode
if errcode != 0:
raise Exception(err)
en = time.time() - st
print 'Command %s: Completed in %s seconds' % (str(i+1), str(round(en, 2)))
if __name__ == '__main__':
src = '/path/to/source/file/'
dst = '/path/to/destination/folder/'
convert(src, dst)
Output:
Command 1: Completed in 11.91 seconds
Command 2: Completed in 11.55 seconds
Environment:
More tools result:
Try calling unoconv from your Python code, it took 8 seconds on my local machine, I don't know if it's fast enough for you:
time unoconv 15.\ Text-Files.pptx
real 0m8.604s