Re: Convert documents in CGI

The closest to document conversion is OpenOffice / LibreOffice in command line mode, and/or antiword (which can't handle docx due to its age). I suggest that you have *Office running as a daemon script that looks in a drop directory for files to convert, and have the CGI script submit new conversion jobs to it, and fetch the results.

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Re^2: Convert documents in CGI by 537mfb (Initiate) on Jun 22, 2011 at 13:19 UTC
Yes - i have been looking into the LibreOffice option - like i mentioned not sure how to make it run as daemon and keep looking in the drop directory - can't be every X minutes cause it need to output the result on upload and not x minutes later but will look into that now maybe keep a perl script ran as root running in the background (not CGI), checking the folder and when new file is found execute the converter - will see thanks for the reply	[reply]
Re^3: Convert documents in CGI by 537mfb (Initiate) on Jun 24, 2011 at 09:52 UTC
Well, I got this problem solved. Case anyone needs a hint on a similar problem, what i did was use a socket server script over TCP using use IO::Socket::INET and having it always on running as root, and it handles requests to convert files from the CGI script that in this case is a client. Thank you for the help.	[reply]