seeddms-code/doc/README.Converters

Conversion to text for fulltext search
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text/plain
text/csv
application/csv
  cat '%s'

application/pdf
  pdftotext -nopgbrk %s - | sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9.]\{1\} / /g' -e 's/[0-9.]//g'

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  docx2txt '%s' -

application/msword
  catdoc %s

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
  xlsx2csv %s

application/vnd.ms-excel
  xls2csv %s

text/html
  html2text %s

Many office formats
  unoconv -d document -f txt --stdout '%s'

Apache Tika is another option for creating plain text from various document
types. Just use curl to send the document to your tika server and get the
plain text in return.

curl -s -T '%s' http://localhost:9998/tika --header 'Accept: text/plain'

Conversion to pdf for pdf preview
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text/plain
text/csv
application/csv
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
application/msword
application/vnd.wordperfect
text/rtf
  unoconv -d document -f pdf --stdout -v '%f' > '%o'

image/png
image/jpg
image/jpeg
  convert -f pdf -density 300 '%f' '%o'

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
  unoconv -d presentation -f pdf --stdout -v '%f' > '%o'

application/vnd.ms-excel
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
  unoconv -d spreadsheet -f pdf --stdout -v '%f' > '%o'

Conversion to png for preview images
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If you have problems running convert on PDF documents then read this page
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1081895/trouble-with-batch-conversion-of-png-to-pdf-using-convert
It basically instructs you to comment out the line

<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />

in /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

image/jpg
image/jpeg
image/png
  convert -resize %wx '%f' '%o'

application/pdf
  gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -dPDFFitPage -r72x72 -sOutputFile=- -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -q '%f' | convert -resize %wx png:- '%o'

text/plain
  a2ps -1 -a1 -R -B -o - '%f' | gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -dPDFFitPage -r72x72 -sOutputFile=- -q - | convert -resize %wx png:- '%o'

application/msword
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
application/vnd.ms-excel
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
text/rtf
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
text/csv
application/csv
application/vnd.wordperfect
  unoconv -d document -e PageRange=1 -f pdf --stdout -v '%f' | gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dPDFFitPage -r72x72 -sOutputFile=- -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -q - | convert -resize %wx png:- '%o'