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!

Szybet t1_je97z55 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:13 AM

Umm guis for pandoc

https://github.com/Ombrelin/pandoc-gui

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

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? :)

nonofomo t1_jed76js wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:51 AM

Yup I agree, esp with working with non technical folk. I don’t think you could make it any easier. Dare I say, you almost made it idiot proof :)

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

Thanks!

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

No need to go too crazy though ;)