Librex

Provides functions to convert office documents, spredsheets & presentations to other formats.

LibreOffice must be installed. It’s recommended that you add the soffice binary your PATH. Otherwise you have to specify the absolute path to the soffice binary.

Examples

iex(1)> Librex.convert(“test/fixtures/docx.docx”, “/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”)

{:ok, "/Users/ricn/docx.pdf"}

iex(2)> Librex.convert(“non_existent_file”, “/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”)

{:error, :enoent}

iex(3)> Librex.convert!(“test/fixtures/docx.docx”, “/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”)

“/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”

iex(4)> Librex.convert!(“non_existent_file”, “/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”)

** (File.Error) could not read non_existent_file: no such file or directory (librex) lib/librex.ex:13: Librex.convert!/3

iex(5)> Librex.convert(“test/fixtures/docx.docx”, “/Users/ricn/docx.pdf”, “/path_to/soffice”)

{:ok, "/Users/ricn/docx.pdf"}