librex v1.0.4 Librex

Provides functions to convert office documents, spreadsheets & 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 as the last parameter.

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"}

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Functions

Converts in_file to out_file Returns :ok if successful, {:error, reason} otherwise.

The same as convert/3, but raises an exception if it fails.

Returns supported document formats

Returns supported presentation formats

Returns supported spreadsheet formats

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convert(in_file, out_file, soffice_cmd \\ "soffice")

Converts in_file to out_file Returns :ok if successful, {:error, reason} otherwise.

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convert!(in_file, out_file, soffice_cmd \\ "soffice")

The same as convert/3, but raises an exception if it fails.

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supported_document_formats()

Returns supported document formats

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supported_presentation_formats()

Returns supported presentation formats

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supported_spreadsheet_formats()

Returns supported spreadsheet formats