Online file converter for MS-and OpenOffice Documents

UPDATE 2017-06-20: This service has been shut down. Sorry.

I stumbled upon this really nice site, and spontaniously decided to code a small page,

wich lets you convert Office documents into various formats.

[update]Today I’ve found a few uploaded documents, which weren’t converted neither deleled. They all had a white space in their filename in common. I’ve fixed this bug, and deleted the documents. Sorry for the inconvenience.[/update]

Usage

  1. Select a document from your hard disk, and hit Upload File
  2. Select the target file type, and hit Convert document
  3. Download the converted document. Hit Download document

Note: If download shows a blank page, and now download has taken place, then it’s may due to the characters in the filename, which can’t be handled. Please rename your file and in a way, no special characters are involved anymore.

Conversion Matrix

  pdf odt sxw rtf doc txt wiki ods sxc xls csv tsv html swf odp sxi ppt svg
odt
sxw
rtf
doc
wpd
txt
ods
sxc
xls
csv
tsv
html
odp
sxi
ppt
odg

 

This project is called JODConverter, and need a running OpenOffice as headless server. A matrix of all formats can be found on their site also.
Why I was so fond of it, was because it’s quite easy to code a little web-application, and offer these services to the public.
The time I’ve needed such a service, I didn’t find anything working, free of nagging (EMail bagging). So here’s my tool free for public use. (Google Ads only 😉

The script is very basic and one might bring this application easily to fall. If I’ll suffer from break-in attempts or other stuff, I will be forced to take it down again, because I can’t risk the servers intergrity.

The original neither the converted files won’t be recorded, logged, analysed, or anything else evil won’t be done. They will be deleted after download.

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