PDF to Word in terminal

Sep 1, 2021 linux-command pdf utils

Quick way to convert pdf to word document from terminal. Works mostly fine in layouts.

libreoffice --infilter="writer_pdf_import" --convert-to docx input.pdf

>      convert input.pdf -> input.docx using filter : MS Word 2007 XML

In some cases its better to use doc as format to keep the alignments and layouts

libreoffice --infilter="writer_pdf_import" --convert-to doc input.pdf

>      convert input.pdf -> input.doc using filter : MS Word 97