EatSleepCodeDelete OP t1_jefbo32 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:26 PM

Reply to comment by nonofomo in Tired of no FOSS, offline, secure and safe options to batch convert Word docs to PDF's, I created BatchWord2PDF using Python and customtkinter by EatSleepCodeDelete

Thanks!

> Dare I say, you almost made it idiot proof :)

No need to go too crazy though ;)

EatSleepCodeDelete OP t1_je9ci8x wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:09 AM

Reply to comment by Szybet in Tired of no FOSS, offline, secure and safe options to batch convert Word docs to PDF's, I created BatchWord2PDF using Python and customtkinter by EatSleepCodeDelete

Cool project, but I think for my specific use case, something really simple is more what I needed; just choose a folder and click convert.

Perhaps my title wasn't very clear on that? :)

EatSleepCodeDelete OP t1_je970x0 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM

Reply to comment by Szybet in Tired of no FOSS, offline, secure and safe options to batch convert Word docs to PDF's, I created BatchWord2PDF using Python and customtkinter by EatSleepCodeDelete

Good question! For context, this project came about when someone in HR at my work asked if I knew of a way to batch convert Word to PDF. The HR rep isn't comfortable using the cli, so I pandoc was not the right solution.

I do know that there are online conversion tools that use pandoc as a backend, but we needed something offline due to the sensitivity of HR documents.

If there are any GUI alternatives out there that are more mature than mine, please let me know!