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by khedoros1 2997 days ago
I've seen you mention those tools a couple times. I'm familiar with ffmpeg. Does convert also cover the MS Office file formats, as this tool purports to?
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The convert tool is part of imagemagick and only works on image formats as far as I know. I personally use pandoc to do similar conversions on documents and ssconvert for spreadsheets.
That's kind of what I thought. Although I'm aware of imagemagick itself, I didn't know that convert was provided by it. Thanks for the clarification.
No. For office formats there's unoconv

https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv

I missed the MS formats -- sorry! I don't know off the top of my head, but doubt it. libreoffice should though.