[OT] best way to deal with .doc?

dgrtwo / HW-Formatter

Formats homework assignments downloaded from Blackboard. Combines multiple PDFs and code files into a single PDF, while allowing syntax highlighting..

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[OT] best way to deal with .doc? #1

Open hupili opened 10 years ago

hupili commented 10 years ago

I also have the problem of downloading/formatting/grading a lot of student submissions from Blackboard. Just come across this interesting project. I glanced the code and it seems only to format source codes. Any idea how to convert .doc, .docx from MS word?

dgrtwo commented 10 years ago

If you work in Windows there's comtypes (see here for an example usage).

But sadly .doc(x) to .pdf solutions are all very OS-dependent, and since I work on a Mac, where no good solutions exist, I didn't think it was worth including (if you'd like to add the feature for Windows here you're certainly welcome to, though I'd ask you try to keep the existing functionality on other machines). I ask students to submit in PDF format for this reason.

hupili commented 10 years ago

I work on MAC or Linux, so MS Word is always a problem. I tried converting using CLI of OpenOffice but it's not always satisfactory, e.g. missing/ incomplete images. I also ask students to submit PDF, but there will always be a dozen submissions in .doc(x).