Convertit is a format conversion webservice.

Retrieve your document in an other format ! The input file is converted and served back ! Using a dead simple GET request, documents are pulled. Using POST request, it takes the attachment.

Supported conversions:

• odt -> pdf
• odt -> doc
• ods -> xls
• csv -> ods
• csv -> xls
• svg -> pdf
• svg -> png
• doc -> pdf
• docx -> pdf
• ppt -> pdf
• pptx -> pdf

Previously converted documents are cleaned along the way (on each request).

USAGE

Using GET request

Example, convert from odt to pdf :

curl http://convertit/?url=http://server/document.odt&to=application/pdf
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Disposition: attachement; filename=document.pdf
...

GET parameters:

url: absolute url of the document to be converted.

"url" also supports a "{X_FORWARDED_FOR}" placeholder for requests not knowing their own host. "{X_FORWARDED_FOR}" will be replaced with the corresponding "X_FORWARDED_FOR" header if available. Be warned that "X_FORWARDED_FOR" is not a safe value since it can be modified by user agents or given false value by forward proxies. Use only if really needed. Exemple:

curl "http://convertit/?url=http://{X_FORWARDED_FOR}/document.odt&to=application/pdf"

Using POST request

Upload data in POST parameter named file:

curl -F "file=@tiger.svg" http://convertit/?to=image/png
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Disposition: attachement; filename=tiger.png

Query parameters

• to: output mimetype (optional, default to application/pdf if not provided);
• from: input mimetype (optional, guessed from input url or file if not provided).

list of mimetypes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Complete_list_of_MIME_types

INSTALL

System dependencies

• for OpenDocument support: unoconv
• for SVG support: inkscape

Conversion binaries should be in system PATH (which is used internally.)

Download

• Download and extract a released tarball from pypi

• The bleeding edge version is hosted on github

  git clone https://github.com/makinacorpus/convertit.git
  cd convertit
  

Development

make serve

Once the application is running, you may visit http://localhost:6543/ in your browser.

Run tests:

make tests

Production

Using gunicorn for example :

gunicorn --workers=1 --paste=production.ini

Using Docker

sudo docker build -t="convertit" .
sudo docker run -p :6543 convertit

curl -LF "file=@input.docx" http://localhost:6543/?to=application/pdf -o output.pdf
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 95  4484    0     0  100  4277      0   3314  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  3312
100  6791  100  6791    0     0   5239      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  5239

Feedback

Open an issue to report a bug or request a new feature.

CREDITS

Companies

• Planet Makina Corpus
• Contact us

Authors

• Antoine Cezar
• Alex Marandon

Contributors

• kiorky <kiorky@cryptelium.net>
• Mathieu Leplatre <mathieu.leplatre@makina-corpus.com>
• Gaël Utard <gael.utard@makina-corpus.com>
• Jean-Etienne Castagnede <j.e.castagnede@gmail.com>