by mguhlin

Batch Convert Word DOC to RTF

EdTech

Working with a lot of Word documents and want to convert them all to another format like Rich Text Format (RTF) ? If you’re on GNU/Linux and have Abiword installed, you’re in luck!

CONVERTS ALL WORD DOC FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY TO RTF

abiword —to=rtf *.doc

Other formats Abiword can convert to:

abw, zabw, rtf, txt, utf8, html

as well as others depending on available filters.

For example, the following command would convert all RTF files to ODT (OpenOffice format):

abiword —to=odt *.rtf

Or, convert from DOC to ODT (Word to OpenOffice):

abiword —to=odt *.doc

Convert PDF to DOC (formatting won’t be great, though)

abiword —to=doc *.pdf

Converting lots of documents has never been so easy!


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