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From looking at other forum posts here, I've found the action wizard, and added the folder I wanted to modify. However, I don't see any way to export from PDF to Word. Only JPEG, PNG, and TIFF show up as export options.
In -convert-pdf-to-word/m-p/4527671 a suggestion was to create a new action but not add any steps, and instead open the "Options dialogue for the Save To field". My problem is that this "Save To" field doesn't appear to exist on my version.
Other threads on this forum have been little help; all the ones I've found just culminated in the advice "Use the Action Wizard" but nothing about how to actually get the Action Wizard to convert specifically from PDF to Word. I don't see any such option. So how do I actually get this folder of PDFs to batch export/convert to Word?
Click the Save command on the left, and then press the button in the middle with the arrow pointing to the right to add it to your Action. Then click it and press Specify Settings underneath it, and you'll see these options.
Provided you have MS Word (or any other app that can open MS Word files) installed, you can use Automator. Here is a step by step guide on how to set it up for your needs: -to-batch-convert-doc-files-to-pdf-format-using-mac-osx-automator/
You can use the docx2pdf command line utility to batch convert docx to pdf on macOS (or windows). It uses Microsoft Word's APIs to directly convert to PDF creating a perfect copy. It uses JXA (Javscript for Automation, basically AppleScript in JS) in macOS and win32com in Windows.
If you make it as your default printer, then you just have to mass select all your files and do "Command" + "P" (shortcut). Mac OSX will open all files, send them to print in pdf, then close them = Simple and it works (on my Mac OS X 10.8.2 Montain Lion)
Unlike the Microsoft Word Macro method, you can do this for any other document created by any other program. As necessary, the Finder will open the appropriate application and tell it to print to the Virtual Printer.
(2) The document's default "Open With" application needs to support the AppleScript command for Print. All well-behaved MacOS X programs do this. NeoOffice for example doesn't, and thus batch converting native NeoOffice documents does not work for this printer icon method."
I had a similar situation, namely a folder of .doc (not .docx) files that needed to be batch converted to other formats such as .docx and .pdf using MacOSX 10.15.6 (Catalina). Products such as Doxillion could convert the files but much of the formatting was lost together with some of the text. I found that Pages could open the .doc files and made a pretty good job of maintaining the formatting and content when the files were exported. A solution using Automator and AppleScript to batch convert all .doc files in a folder is given by red_menace in response to question at: -path-to-file-in-applescript-script-as-part-of-automator-workflow
BatchConv is a batch tool allowing conversion of a file list from and to any supported OpenOffice.org import/export file formats. This macro based wizard asks for a file list and the target directory and file format. It will then loop over the list and use Ooo import/export capabilities to process the documents.
This little program batch / mass convert Microsoft Office documents (*.doc, *.xls, and .ppt) to their OpenOffice equivalent (.odt, *.ods, and *.odp (aka OpenDocument Format)). The nice thing about this script is that it converts all documents specified in the input, including subdirectories. The result can be put in another directory, and it retains its original directory structure (the script takes care of keeping the relative path). Use it at your own risk!
Word 2010 (and possibly previous versions as well) can natively open OpenOffice (odt) files, right? If so, and you want a Windows method, simply run a command prompt, cd to the directory where the files exist, and execute the following command: ren *.odt *.doc
Bluebeam Office Plugin's batch feature allows you to create PDF files from multiple documents at one time. You can select individual files, complete folders, or a combination of the two. A single PDF can be created that contains all of the documents, or individual PDFs can be created for each document.
The batch feature only works on documents of the same type (all Word documents or all Excel spreadsheets or all PowerPoint slides). There is a unique batch feature for Outlook; see Creating a PDF from Multiple Messages for details.
After a batch job has been selected or created, the Bluebeam Batch feature opens. This process describes how to convert batch files to PDF from this window. For more information about other tasks that can be performed from this window, see The Bluebeam Batch Interface.
I am l trying to create a batch file to search within hundreds of thousands of folders containing millions of word documents. I want the search to output a text document listing file names which contain two specific phrases i am looking for. It has been more than a decade since i played around with these and i am completely clueless where to start. Can anyone help?
Thanks very much guys, I tried agent ransack but seemed as slow as windows. Couldn%u2019t get the batch to work. I eventually found someone with a database of the files I wanted and cross-referenced with my on list on excel and got the data I needed. Thanks again
I've moved this thread under the "Word" tag since this isn't related to Azure AD. There is a blog post here that details how to batch accept changes across multiple files. There also appear to be macros like the following that you can use to accept all tracked changes in all documents with a .doc, .docx or .docm extension in a folder:
If you prefer to avoid macros, looking for a convenient user interface, and have the budget, there are standalone metadata removers that can accept all track edit changes (also called remove tracked changes) across multiple documents in bulk. Examples include BatchPurifier (by Digital Confidence), BigHand Metadata Management, and Litera Metadact.
However now I am getting an exception, when I start word.dxl which is good, because it shows that word.dxl is running, but on the other side is expectedly bad, because it will not bring you nearer to your goal. The problem is, that in batch mode, some stuff works differently than in interactive mode. I am only guessing now, but I think you will have problems, since word.dxl tries to export the current view. However I am not exactly sure, which view functions work in batch mode, but I imagine that this will be complicated to solve and will require mayor changes to word.dxl.
So I suggest you to let go of batch mode, start DOORS in interactive mode, but with the -D flag for executing your export script after login. Then let your script end DOORS afterwards, e.g. by calling the exit_ function (You might want to check if that function will give back the client license before terminating DOORS).
I described some ways to "remote control" DXL dialogs in earlier posts, using this technique you will be able to make the settings in the word export dialog and start the export.
Hope that helps, regards, Mathias
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It worked perfectly but in my case I have multiple folders within main folder some have pages files and other don't, is there a way to look through including folders and if there is a pages file create a folder named "word" and convert all pages files into it?
For this particular exercise, I chose an Automator application solution over a more complicated (read time consuming to debug) Shortcut solution. The code works on Ventura 13.0.1, and should also work on earlier versions of macOS.
It will prompt your for the parent folder that contains your subfolders and Pages document hierarchy. It works on an list of your Pages documents, determines for a given document location if a "Word" folder exists and makes one if missing. It then requests that Pages export that Pages document to .docx with that respective Word folder as the export target. When done, a completion dialog will appear showing how many Pages documents were processed and a count of Word documents exported.
Because of your volume (6000) of Pages documents, I chose to use the Zsh shell instead of AppleScript. With this volume of files, it will still run for a long while as the Pages export process will take its toll on the clock.
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