pdf2doc.bat

echo ON
echo PDF to docx
echo usage: pdf2doc FooBarBoo.pdf
echo This will generate: FooBarBoo-jpeg.docx (a docx with JPEG pictures of the PDF) and FooBarBoo-OCR.docx (a docx with OCR-ized content of the PDF)
cd %CD%

where /q gswin32.exe || set PATH=C:\win32app\ghostscript-9.27\bin;%PATH%
where /q soffice.exe || set PATH=C:\win32app\LibreOffice-6.1\App\libreoffice\program;%PATH%

:LOOP
if "%1" == "" goto END
set FILENAME=%1
set FILENAME=%FILENAME:~0,-4%
echo XXXXXXXXX %FILENAME% XXXXXXXXXXXXX

C:\win32app\ImageMagick-7.0.11-0-portable-Q8-x86\convert -density 300  %FILENAME%.pdf %FILENAME%-%%03d.jpg
C:\win32app\ImageMagick-7.0.11-0-portable-Q8-x86\convert  %FILENAME%-*.jpg %FILENAME%-jpeg.pdf
soffice --infilter="writer_pdf_import" --convert-to docx %FILENAME%-jpeg.pdf
:waitForJpegPdf
IF NOT EXIST %FILENAME%-jpeg.pdf (
  sleep 5
  goto waitForJpegPdf
)
soffice --infilter="writer_pdf_import" --convert-to docx %FILENAME%.pdf

:waitForOcrPdf
IF NOT EXIST %FILENAME%.pdf (
  sleep 5
  goto waitForOcrPdf
)

mv %FILENAME%.docx %FILENAME%-OCR.docx
rm -rf %FILENAME%-*.jpg
rm -rf %FILENAME%-jpeg.pdf

SHIFT /1

goto LOOP

:END

echo Job is finished

Quick and dirty script to convert PDF documents to DocX.
This is useful to store some PDFs in GoogleDrive without consuming quota (...until June 2021!).

Update: accept a list of arguments (pdf2doc.bat foo.pdf bar.pdf boo.pdf).

Update: sleep less ;-)