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Batch file to convert HTML files to Word docx with Pandoc
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:: This batch file converts HTML files in a folder to docx. | |
:: It requires Pandoc, and a list of files to convert | |
:: named file-list, in which each file is on a separate line, | |
:: and contains no spaces in the filename. | |
:: | |
:: Don't show these commands to the user | |
@ECHO off | |
:: Set the title of the window | |
TITLE Convert html to docx | |
:: This thing that's necessary. | |
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion | |
:: What're we doing? | |
ECHO Converting to .docx... | |
:: Loop through the list of files in file-list | |
:: and convert them each from .html to .docx. | |
:: We end up with the same filenames, | |
:: with .docx extensions appended. | |
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%F IN (file-list) DO ( | |
pandoc %%F -f html -t docx -s -o %%F.docx | |
) | |
:: What are we doing next? | |
ECHO Fixing file extensions... | |
:: What are we finding and replacing? | |
SET find=.html | |
SET replace= | |
:: Loop through all .docx files and remove the .html | |
:: from those filenames pandoc created. | |
FOR %%# in (.\*.docx) DO ( | |
Set "File=%%~nx#" | |
Ren "%%#" "!File:%find%=%replace%!" | |
) | |
:: Whassup? | |
ECHO Done. | |
:: Let the user exit deliberately | |
:exit | |
SET exit= | |
SET /p exit=Hit return to exit... | |
IF "%repeat%"=="" GOTO:eof | |
GOTO exit |
But I faced one more issue - my html file was ANSI and not UTF-8 encoded..so when i changed it, it worked....But I have many html files which are ANSI and not UTF-8 encoded, any idea how to export html to word with having ANSI encoding?
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Hi arthurattwell....Thank you for the code, now im able to convert html to doc....not sure what was the error but i re installed the pandoc and tried again and it worked